OFFICIAL CLOSURE (transcript of recordings)

Adina Surugiu-Relicovschi
“We can now conclude the four days of the Romanian Environmental Forum; during these days we became familiar with the most important international programs in the field of the environment protection, ongoing or completed projects, generally speaking with programs financed by international institutions having a Romanian contribution as well. We also became familiar with the latest techniques in the field of environment protection, in waste control, water and atmosphere protection.

I want to invite my colleague, Mr. Ovidiu Romosan, to draw a conclusion to the Romanian Transport Forum; this way we can end both sections.”

Mr Ovidiu Romosan
“We consider that the Romanian Transport Forum objectives, maybe not very ambitious being the first event of this kind, have been reached and we believe that a solid foundation has been laid for the organization of future fora in this field. There has been a fruitful exchange of information between authorities, transport operators, Romanian and foreign consulting companies, with the continuous participation of the civil society which signaled the transport degradation elements and the delays in some areas. At the same time, the civil society also noticed the progress that has been made in point of infrastructure, which is very important because it stimulates activities and horizontal industries, and creates new jobs. It was pointed out that market economy principles start to be perceived in all the types of transport, even in urban public transport where significant efforts are made to reduce pressure on the budget by marketing techniques.

The last meeting today was an innovation; a mirror conference presented first by the Transport Federation in Italy, ATAC Company from Rome which is the homologue of RATB in the roman city and FIT Consulting Company; we had a chance to hear about similar problems with different levels of priority and specific methods of approach. It has been decided to conclude a co-operation agreement between the Autonomous Transport Administration of Bucharest and ATAC in Rome targeting mainly a mutual support in the participation to European projects. Another subject of discussion was the inter-modality principle and the need to combine transport with freight railway transport. I noticed that during these days foreign credits were obtained, which will certainly stimulate some transport areas like intercity transport and urban transport. I also noticed that the Romanian consulting activity starts to develop; new telematics technologies are gaining ground; the presence of the company Intelligent Transport System Romania had a catalytic role in promoting a network of companies interested in integrated telematic solutions that can offer both increased efficiency and lower costs. We have heard about modern navigation systems that are no longer science fiction but begin to be applied mainly in urban vehicles and freight transport monitoring; such an activity could bring us back to a lost principle in freight and passenger transport, namely Door-to-Door Transport.

These are a few conclusions of the event ending today; of course, the Transport Forum Book will include all this and many other interesting things. Thank you.”

 

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