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CCASP A NEW WAY OF STRATEGIC THINKING – BOOSTING SUSTAINABLE URBAN MOBILITY PLANS-
ROMANIAN CASE

could be negative factors in the process of implementation. A challenge for the metropolitan area, is to

develop Metropolitan transport authorities, to tackle all the mobility needs for passengers and freight.
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Process of SUMPs elaboration – main findings

The techniques used by the consultants for gathering data and information were the following:

? Surveys e.g. manual turning counts, automatic Traffic Counts , journey time surveys, surveys
among car drivers/Public transport users, Public Transport Vehicle Loading Surveys

? Data collection – interviews, questionnaires in traffic and on the streets, online surveys

? Analysis of documents and others information available from statistics and municipalities.

Al the cities involved the citizens in the process of elaboration, the most common ways of getting people
involved are the following:

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? Workshops and public meetings for identifying the current problems and the solutions with
NGOs, schools, private sectors – at least 2 meetings were organized in each cities

? The social media – especially facebook, it was used for informing citizens about the stage of ”Strategic Management for Local Communities”

elaboration, also an online surveys it was implementing for collecting data.

? The websites of local authorities were used for sharing information to the public.

Problems encountered in the process of collecting data:

? “Terra incognita” travel demand and travel demand behaviour, no information about transport

demand, no local information

? Difficult Household surveys- budget and time restrictions cause small samples under big
pressure, uncertainties about massive derivations of trip frequencies compared to expected ones

? The less participation of people from the metropolitan areas

The official sources used to deliver data in Romania were:

? National Institute of Statistics and authorities from different administrative levels – complete
databases, free of charge or not

? Stakeholders or transport companies – synthetic data from reports, studies, research, synthetic
empirical data, of reduced availability.

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