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- Title
OPTIMIZATION POSSIBILITIES OF THE URBAN PUBLIC TRANSPORT IN TIMISOARA.
- Authors
PAVEL, Sorin; IGNEA, Flavius
- Abstract
In spite of the difficulties of the transition period, city authorities managed to preserve the functionality of the urban transportation system in Timisoara and even to perform important modernization actions. Timisoara holds several national premieres in the public transportation sector: the first electric tramway on the present territory of Romania (1899) and the first trolleybus in the country (1942). The public transportation network developed continuously, so that the Municipality of Timisoara has at the moment a dense public transportation network which serves all the quarters of the city. As researches reveal that in Timişoara of the year 2030 the private car will remain one of the main means of transportation, a fast and functional public transportation system becomes and imperative condition to ensure urban accessibility and mobility. The projects of the local authorities aim to give the public transportation system of the Municipality of Timisoara European features speed, efficiency and modernity, to develop the local public infrastructure to ensure mobility in the historical center and to render accessibility to the suburbs of the Municipality of Timisoara.
- Subjects
URBAN transportation; URBAN planning; PUBLIC transit
- Publication
Geographica Timisiensis, 2015, Vol 24, Issue 1, p63
- ISSN
1224-0079
- Publication type
Article