Madrid-Seville high-speed rail line to Cádiz railway station was completed after 14 years of works and put in service by Alvia trains for speeds up to . Impact The new railway line radically changed the modal split between Madrid and Seville. The share of air traffic decreased between 1991 and 1994 from 40% to 13%; the combined share of car and bus decreased from 44% to 36%. The share of railway traffic increased from 16% to 51%, while total traffic increased by 35%. In 1997, some 4.4 million passengers travelled along the line; in 1998, 4.75 million. By 1999, trains transported over 4 times as many passengers as planes between Seville and Madrid. Sources Hochgeschwindigkeitsverkehr in Spanien aufgenommen and Neubaustrecke Madrid–Sevilla in Betrieb, in: Eisenbahntechnische Rundschau, June 1992, page 354 f. References Further reading External links LAV Madrid - Sevilla on Ferropedia High-speed railway lines in Spain Rail transport in Madrid Railway lines opened in 1992 1992 establishments in Spain Standard gauge railways in Spain