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Adif opens a new Multi-network Traffic Regulation Center (CRC) in El Berrón (Asturias), expanded and innovative, equipped with cutting-edge technology, which integrates the management of the traffic of conventional and metric networks in the region from Asturias.
From El Berrón, 80 professionals manage 7 operating stations of 976 km of conventional and metric width network through which 579 trains run a day: 477 of Cercanías, 19 of MD, 8 of LD, 34 of goods and 41 technical trains of Adif). Trains that travel 163,600 km daily through the regions of Asturias, Galicia and León.
CRC Multi-Red: an innovative concept that improves exploitation
The CRC Multi-red integrates the traffic operations of the conventional and wide-metric network, taking advantage of synergies, by governing from a single location different CTCs (Centralized Traffic Control) and concentrating in the same space the teams involved in the regulation of the rail traffic in the territory, thus strengthening coordination and efficiency.
The CRC of El Berrón maintains the management of the five posts of the wide metric network (754 km): Ferrol-Cudillero, Oviedo-Unquera, Gijón Sanz Crespo-Cudillero and San Esteban de Pravia-Oviedo, Trubia-Collanzo and Gijón Sanz Crespo-Laviana
In addition, it incorporates the management of rail traffic on the conventional gauge network (222 km) with two stations: La Robla-Oviedo and Soto de Rey-El Entrego; and Oviedo-Gijón Sanz Crespo, Villabona de Asturias-San Juan de Nieva and Tudela Veguín-Lugo de Llanera.
The Berrón also has stations for the remote control of the traction energy of the electrified lines in its area. The professionals of the CRC maintain permanent communication with the drivers of the railway operators of travelers and goods that circulate in their area, as well as with other external services, such as Civil Protection, Firefighters, health services, etc.
Strategic environment
Located 12 km from Oviedo, in a strategic environment and in a unique building, the old 'Casa del Colegial', the CRC of El Berrón has a 343 m2 control room, a 49 m2 video wall and ultra-panoramic monitors and high resolution in each post, which represent the railway lines and the elements for traffic management.
The room also has a unique element: the ODS Clock, converted into the identity of Adif's new CRCs. Its design, developed by an internal team, has a second that refers to the Sustainable Development Goals (ODS), promoted by the United Nations to which the company is affiliated.
In fact, this action contributes to the achievement of ODS 9, which promotes the promotion of sustainable, reliable and quality infrastructures.
A long history in the railway service in Asturias
The CTC of Oviedo entered service in 1966. It has been a pioneer in the Spanish railway by introducing the first banalized line (suitable for running indistinctly on both tracks in both directions) and the first line with radiotelephony with the train drivers of the Spanish railway network.
The metric width network service was installed in 1981 in La Maruca (Avilés), the first CTC that regulated the Avilés-Gijón route, which later, in 1990, joined the Gijón CTC.
In April 1997, the El Berrón Command Post was created, to which the Gijón CTC and the old FEVE Command Post in Oviedo were moved. Between 2000 and 2012, the unique building of the 'Casa del Colegial' was incorporated into the management of the meter wide sections, which now also houses the CTC of Oviedo with a conventional network.
The rest of the traffic on the railways that cross the region -La Robla-Campomanes (Pajares variant) and León-La Robla on the conventional network- are managed from the CRC de León.
Neural centers of circulation management
The CRCs are nerve centers for railway traffic management, operating 24 hours a day, every day of the year. Adif has 19 CRCs in Spain, which manage the circulation of two million trains a year for more than 15,600 km of the railway network in Spain.
From the CRCs compliance with transport plans is ensured and network capacity is optimized with criteria of reliability, punctuality and quality. Adif's CRCs simultaneously integrate and regulate the systems involved in the control and regulation of rail traffic: signaling, electrification, communications and information systems, and energy, among others.
The Centralized Traffic Control (CTC) is the heart of the CRC, which directly regulates the signals and needles located on the route from a single point, by means of computer systems, establishing the train route in terms of safety and reliability.
Adif promotes an investment of 72 million in the renewal of its management systems for the conventional and metric width network, implementing the latest advances and redundant systems.
Reinforced to respond to the growth in traffic associated with the expansion of the network and the liberalization of passenger transport, the team that integrates the CRC in Spain combines the talent of more than 1,400 professionals and the most advanced technology.
