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Granada Transport

 

Promote and finish the work of the Intermodal Transportation Plan Area Granada.

Planning and management of infrastructure and transport services that are declared of interest in the Metropolitan Intermodal Transportation Plan.

Coordination of services, infrastructure, and facilities of transport; promoting the image of the unified transport system of Area of Granada.

Cooperation on the provision of transport services, as well as the construction and operation of infrastructure and facilities of the metropolitan.

Establishment of charging for the provision of services in the territorial scope of the Consortium.

Proposal for establishment of fees, public prices, and special contributions in accordance with legislation related to the exercise of their activities and services.

Rail

Grenada has a station in the city center. It travels on two rail lines: Moreda-Bobadilla-Granada and Granada. The latter is being adapted for high-speed Spanish.

It has daily connections via direct national Renfe-Long distance: The Train and Train Hotel Gibralfaro Arco Garcia Lorca to Albacete, Valencia-Estacio del Nord, Castellon, Tarragona, and Barcelona Sants and the two trains Talgo “Altaria” to Antequera–Santa Ana, Cordoba-Central, Central-Ciudad Real and Madrid-Puerta de Atocha.

It also has regional connections through direct Renfe-Media Distance to Sevilla, Almeria, Algeciras, Antequera, Ronda, Loja, Granada, and Linares-Baeza.

There is some sensitivity in the province to the reopening of the railway section Guadix-Baza-Almendros, whose closure in 1985 broke the Murcia-Granada, known as Almanzora railway, which connects the mainland to the southeast Mediterranean.

The company has implemented an Integrated Management System, which incorporates the standards UNE-EN-ISO 9001:2000 and UNE-EN-ISO 14001:2004 and OHSAS 18001:1999 specification.

The latest figures from 2007 indicate that the bus company transports approximately 35 million passengers a year. This company holds contracts for the supply of transport or collaboration with other firms in the metropolitan area and belongs to the Consortium of Transportation Area of Granada.

The concessionaires of public transport that make up the Consortium are: Rober Transport SA Transportes Alsina Graells Sur, SA, Arana Transport, SL, Trinidad Nievas, SL, Bus Frame, SL, Coach Jose Gonzalez Electric Trams grenada, Autogranadina Company Torres, SL, Coach Martin Corral, SL, Carlos Fernandez de la Torre, SL, Linan Company, SA, Urena and Sons, Ltd., Coach Marcos Munoz, SL.

Urban Bus

The City Council of Granada has given the operation of urban transport to Rober, S. A. since 1962. Since then the growth of the service has evolved, along with what was going to the urban development of the city. The company provides services with a fleet of 150 buses, some of them long.

The service is provided on 29 lines of travel, divided as follows: a metropolitan, four tours, two nocturnal, and 22 others (the eight is a special service for nonschool days; the C and U lines only operate on school days and during the academic year).

Metropolitan Transport Consortium

The Consortium of Metropolitan Transportation Area Granada is an entity of public law of a partnership with legal personality separate from its members, its own assets, independent administration, extensive legal capacity, and is constituted for the purpose of articulating the economic, technical, and administrative cooperation between government consortium to jointly exercise the powers and coordinate them in the creation and management of transport infrastructure and services in the municipalities.

Currently, the consortium is the government of Andalusia, the Diputacion Provincial of Granada, and the City Councils of Granada and 31 locations throughout the metropolitan area. Among the objectives and functions of the Consortium include:

 

 

 

 

Air

The International Airport Federico Garcia Lorca Granada-Jaen, located next to the A-92, 17 kilometers from the city, in the town of Chauchina, has domestic flights to Madrid, Barcelona, Palma de Mallorca, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Las Palmas Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, and Melilla.

It also has flights to various cities and European capitals, such as London (with Ryanair and previously with Monarch, the latter already suspended), Liverpool, Nottingham, and Milan (with Ryanair.)

It has regular flights to Paris (with Vueling Transavia), Rome (with Vueling), and Ryanair Frankfurt.

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