The steering group has the pleasure to announce, that

Spain will host this year´s Watford Conference.

The date is not yet decided, but the usual conference term is September / October.

Map of the AVE lines (newly built and upgraded) in Spain (source: MJSmit @ Wikipedia)

The suggested conference theme is:

"Capacity"

Spain succeeded well on its way of becoming the worlds greatest high speed network
and numbers of passengers are increasing beyond all measures.
So we could not imagine a better place to discuss this theme then here.

Ebro Bridge near Zaragoza. (source: Ministerio de Fomento)