STRATEGIC DIRECTION SESSION ST2SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT ANDGLOBALIZATION: THE ROADS LINKS OF THETRANSPORTATION CHAIN

摘要

The report shortly presents the studies realized for the development of the roadinfrastructure in the metropolitan area of the city of Timisoara in the context of itsintegration in the national transportation network. It mentions the condition of theRomanian road network and the strategy concerning the construction of highways and therehabilitation of trunk national roads in the European network. The prospects of theeconomical and social development of the city of Timisoara, from the point of view of theEuropean tendencies, foreshadow the creation of a metropolitan pole which integrates theimportant towns on a 30km radius.The traffic study for the city of Timisoara has been realized in an integrated conceptionthat treated the analysis of the present traffic, respectively the elaboration of the trafficforecast on average and long term. It emphasized the present and forecast values of themain traffic indicators on vehicle types (motorization degree and mobility). Based on thedata obtained, arrangement proposals have been formulated to improve the present traffic,respectively the development strategies for the future road infrastructure.Considering the development prospects for the area and the results of the traffic study,propositions for solutions have been formulated to integrate its road network in the nationaltransportation system taking into account the strategies elaborated by the centraladministration in the context of the need to get connected to the European roadtransportation system.The proposed solutions have taken into consideration the sustainable development of theregional road transport infrastructure, by properly dealing with the issues of the impactupon the environment and of adaptability to the future needs.