The European Commission through cohesion policies foresees a stronger focus on sustainable urban development, including through the development of environmentally friendly, low-carbon transport systems and the promotion of sustainable urban mobility. On 9 March 2007, the European Union adopted its Energy Package for a changing world, unilaterally committing itself to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 20 % by 2020, by increasing energy efficiency by 20 % and achieving 20 % of renewable energy in the energy mix. From this perspective, a key element is the Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan, which, as defined in European Union documents, is a strategic public policy document aimed at meeting the mobility needs of people and economic activities in urban or metropolitan areas for a better quality of life, addressing all forms of transport throughout the urban agglomeration, especially public and private transport, freight and passengers, motorised and non-motorised, moving or stationary. The Committee of the Regions of the European Union has stressed the need to unite local and regional efforts, given that multilevel governance is an appropriate tool to increase the effectiveness of actions to combat climate change. Thus, the strategic approach to urban transport planning is based on the principles of integration, participation and evaluation in order to meet the mobility needs of individuals and institutions or firms in the city and metropolitan area, in order to improve the quality of life. Increasing urban and inter-urban mobility are the main themes of the European Union for the period 2014-2020, so the creation, modernisation or expansion of local public transport systems are funding priorities in the current year of the European Union. Thus, according to the European, national and local programming documents, the development of urban mobility must become much less dependent on the use of cars by changing the focus from mobility based mainly on their use, mobility based on walking, cycling as a means of travel, the use of high-quality and efficient public transport, reducing the use of cars in parallel with the use of clean car categories. In this context, this project proposes a series of interventions that will contribute to improving the efficiency of public passenger transport in Craiova, its frequency and journey times, accessibility and transfer to it from private transport and thus to the achievement of specific objective 4.1, Priority Axis 4, Investment Priority 4e under ROP 2014-2020. Objective
