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France has received the go-ahead from the European Commission to ban short-haul flights in trips for which there is a good rail alternative. In this article we review the fine print of the French law, identify which connections in Spain meet the criteria — or will do so with the planned infrastructures —, and analyse the effects that this may have for the passengers of some of the connections that are could be affected by this measure in Spain.

A look over the least used stations in Spanish commuter railways [Part 2]

Transport planners often struggle to solve bottlenecks in saturated networks. However, sometimes the challenge is to understand why certain transport services remain underutilised. Our curiosity about travel behaviour led us to combine mobile network data, ticketing data and survey data to explore what is behind the limited passenger flow of the least used stations in the Spanish commuter railway network. On this occassion, we look at the least used station of Barcelona’s commuter railway system: Borgonyà.

A look over the least used stations in Spanish commuter railways [Part 1]

Inspired by the brilliant videos from Geoff Marshall, we kick off a series of posts to look at the least used stations of the Spanish Renfe commuter railway systems, Cercanías Renfe. In this first article, we analyse the least used Madrid Renfe Cercanías stop: San Yago.