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project info
Start date: 1 March 2017
End date: 31 December 2023
funding
Fund: European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
Total budget: 13 164 024,00 €
EU contribution: 11 189 420,00 € (85%)
programme
Programming period: 2014-2021
Managing authority: Ministerul Dezvoltării Regionale, Administrației Publice si Fondurilor Europene

Integrated project for the modernisation of the public bus transport system in Craiova – motor – A

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. Congestion, car dependency, and public transport connectivity are problems that many communities are currently facing. The forecasts made at national and local level clearly show the trend of increasing the degree of motorisation and the number of daily journeys. As projects are not implemented to alter citizens’ travel behaviour, promoting ways

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