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Data requirementsIt was appreciated that most useful in supporting the adoption of sustainable transport measures and projects would be the evidence in form of examples/best practices explaining clearly and in detail the entire process (from SUMP development, to gaining acceptance of unpopular measures and to funding and institutional schemes set-up for implementation). Also, in majority, respondents from small-medium size cities consider as useful and relevant for their cities, where the concept of sustainable transport in not yet well-known, trainings presenting the concept but tailored to local needs and context. These trainings should include best practices comparable (in size, economic and demographic conditions) with the cities of the trainees. A recurring idea across the interviews is to make information (either in the form of best practices or in the form of guidelines and documents) easy accessible – sometimes a video or a webinar being more effective in passing on information than the written form. Many interviewees (especially practitioners or technicians in the local administration) consider that convincing politicians to support sustainable transport and engage implementation cannot be generated only through participation in workshops and conferences, where presentations are brief and too general. Politicians would gain confidence in investing in sustainable transport and would get more proactive if involved in bilateral exchanges, “shadowing” type events, in which they have the opportunity to see on-site how is done, the progress of work and the real benefits. Some practitioners and academics pointed out the lack of certain specialists from the Romanian professional transport landscape, emphasising that currently no university is forming these specialists; these are: transport economists, specialists in transport safety and in logistics and urban freight. Others, on the contrary, stated that specialists are present on the market but what is missing especially when it comes to SUMPs development is the common but also strategic understanding; the road engineer does not understand transport, the transport engineer does understand what the road system is, the traffic engineer does not share the perspective of the urban planner, etc.
The professional backgrounds of the experts interviewed are mainly in engineering (civil, transport, environment or mechanics), urban planning or architecture, economics and sociology. Some of the professional networks mentioned for information exchange or for membership are: City networks: Romanian Association of Municipalities, Covenant of Mayors CODATU Romania CITIVAS working groups, The experts Group on Urban Mobility set-up by the European Commission in 2014 Romanian Register of Town Planners Urban Mobility Group of Bucharest municipality UITP and URTP (Romanian Union of Public Transport) ERRAC IET, ITS National The main information channels and sources of information used by experts interviewed are: Mobility platforms on the internet: ELTIS, mobilityplans.eu, CIVITAS, ENDURANCE, EPOMM/ECOMM, etc. Workshops, conferences, trainings Newsletters: ECOMM, ELTIS Printed magazines/journals : Urbanismul serie noua, URTP magazine, CONCLUSIONSThe European Commission’s support, incentives and pressure, the commitment of the Ministry of regional development and Public Administration as well as the civil society sustained actions and the academia involvement have started to pay results during the last 5years and generated a shift in transport planning and culture towards sustainability. Though initially awareness on sustainable urban transport has been better created in large scale urban communities or in the ones more exposed to European contact, the message is now also being heard/understood in smaller communities. Thus, presently with MDRAP and EU support funding is being allocated for SUMPs development and also sustainable transport measures and projects implementation. However, a shift from funding large (sometimes utopian) road infrastructure projects is still required and decision-makers need to be convinced about the benefits of sustainable transport compared with road infrastructure investments. For this the legislation and frameworks already in place needs to be better defined and enforced. Though useful and used in SUMPs development the guidelines provided for the growth poles SUMPs need to be completed with documents supporting implementation of measure and projects, its steps, possible funding schemes, institutional partnerships, monitoring and appraisal methods, etc. ORGANOGRAM – EVIDENCE Materials Needs Analysis 
Directory: energy -> intelligent -> projects -> sites -> iee-projects -> files -> projects -> documents energy -> Energy Invention Suppression Cases energy -> Privacy impact assessment: org name system name documents -> Project Fact Sheet Sustainable marketdriven terminal solutions for efficient freight transport (smartset) Main information energy -> Strategic Energy Policy Challenges for the 21 energy -> Table of Figures energy -> Office of Indian Energy Financial and Technical Assistance Fact Sheet energy -> Doe agency plan appendix a doe best practices energy -> Statement of work for the transaction advisor 0 the power africa program in liberia energy -> This report was produced using data, forecasts and price information current at the time of writing (2013). It should be noted that these inputs are likely to Download 0.84 Mb. Share with your friends:
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