Intermodalitatea, o prioritate a politicii de mobilitate pentru oraşul Bucureşti, în contextul crizei economice

The sustainable reshape of mobility is instrumented by the new behavioral perspective on the urban system of movement, viewed as result of a travel behavior which can be restructured with market mechanisms. The economic crisis, with its financial decline, could be an opportunity for travel behavior reshape, mainly aiming at reducing automobility. In this respect, collective public transport must be highlighted through integrated mobility policies and packages of different consensual measures. This paper argue the priority for organizing a coherent system of simple and/or complex intermodal poles in Bucharest city

Considerations on the management of accessibility improvement impact on land use

This paper addresses a LUM (Land Use & Mobility) approach of accessibility improvement issues. It presents a deterministic radiography of the impact that a new transportation infrastructure has within its territory of influence, through the accessibility it provides. The study concludes on legislative and methodological improvements for developing a necessary, integrated LUM planning of accessibility, so as to achieve its highest capitalization and to mitigate its possible negative side-effects in the territory. The focus is on the key issues for developing a framework for a LUM planning of accessibility in the Romanian context

Planning urban shrinkage along the danube – a paradox or a new normality? // Introduction

COULD MACRO-LEVEL URBAN PLANNING be an effective solution to the issue of the shrinkage of many low-income cities in post-socialist countries in the eastern half of Europe? Although urban shrinkage is a rather complicated and often irreversible process, different global and local planning strategies are developed to overcome its consequences (Neill & Schlappa, 2016), which is often the subject of a “top-down” political regulation. These intentions have opened new perspective for traditional urban planning, embracing different novelties

Urban regeneration through the (re)modeling of mobility, in Carol Park Area

The study outlines a concept of urban regeneration for an area with a valuable urban and architectural heritage, based on an integrated policy of reshaping mobility aiming at harmonization of accessibility and quality of living objectives, rehabilitation of public spaces - streets and squares, stimulation of building use conversions which, at their turn, generate financial resources for the renovation of the historic buildings

A review on oxide/metal/oxide thin films on flexible substrates as electrodes for organic and perovskite solar cells

International audienceThis paper gives an overview on the recent advances on the oxide/metal/oxide (OMO) on flexible plastic substrates and their applications as electrodes for organic and perovskite solar cells. The morphological, optical and electrical characteristics of different type of OMO electrodes such as: IMI (ITO/Metal/ITO), ZAZ (ZnO/Au or Ag/ZnO), NAN (NiO/Ag/NiO), TAT (TiO2/Ag/TiO2), DMD (MoO3/Ag/MoO3, SnO2/Ag/SnO2 etc.) collected fromliterature are presented and analyzed. This analysis allows to identify the most promising materials and the bestchoices in term of layers thickness for obtaining high quality electrodes with high transmission coefficients, highelectrical conductivity and low roughness. The solar cells performances using these three layer electrodes arecompared with those of the same devices in the classical configuration using ITO or FTO on plastic substrates asbottom electrodes or Au and Ag silver as top electrodes. It results a mean variation of about ±15% in efficiencyperformances in function of materials or technologies. The organic or perovskites solar cells classical configuration is: glass or PET substrate/ITO or FTO bottom electrodes/active layers/Au or Ag top electrodes. In the new configuration the usual bottom or top electrodes are replaced with OMO electrodes. Hence the new configurations are: 1) PET substrate/OMO bottom electrode/active layers/Au or Ag top electrode, or 2) PET substrate/ITO or FTO bottom electrode/active layers/OMO This last configuration lead to the developed of a new class of tandem or semi-transparent flexible solar cells based on organic or perovskite materials, which performances are very competitive with those deposited on classical configurations. The advantage of OMO are their mechanical, electrical and optical stability and their reduced cost by the reduction or suppression of some rare materials such as ITO

Study of oxide/metal/oxide thin films for transparent electronics and solar cells applications by spectroscopic ellipsometry

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Reduction and replacement of critical raw material used for transparent electrodes in flat screens, transparent electronics and solar cells

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Creating Tourism Destinations of Underground Built Heritage—The Cases of Salt Mines in Poland, Portugal, and Romania

Salt mines, a significant category of local, regional, national, and/or European underground heritage, are becoming attractive tourism destinations. This paper examines three cases of salt mining in different European countries, namely Wieliczka in Poland, Campina de Cima in Portugal, and Turda in Romania. They are analyzed in the context of history, typical attributes of their attractiveness, and new uses after the salt extraction was or is going to be stopped, in order to detect their unique values as important assets for both Underground Built Heritage (UBH) and Salt Heritage Tourism (SHT). The results of their comparison show that despite a positive impact related to their protection as cultural and industrial heritage, there are also some negative aspects related to increasing costs of their maintenance and adaptation of salt mines to new functions and to meet the tourism needs. By putting in place measures to enhance the awareness of their values and for activating the local community, the three mines are showcases for the economic outputs for their sites and regions, as well as for increasing knowledge regarding UBH

Premises for the Future Deployment of Automated and Connected Transport in Romania Considering Citizens’ Perceptions and Attitudes towards Automated Vehicles

This paper is an initial exploratory study that provides recommendations for the sustainable development of future automated and connected transport (ACT) systems in Romania. To achieve this, our paper investigates the different factors that influence mobility behaviour related to ACT systems through two different themes. The first part analyses (i) the strategic framework that is relevant to future ACT deployment and (ii) the spatial development patterns of large cities in Romania that might influence future mobility behaviour based on ACT systems. We presumed, and the study confirmed, that there is currently a poor focus on ACT systems in strategic documents and that the current spatial patterns show some premises for unsustainable mobility behaviour based on ACT systems. The second part describes the results of our analysis on the WISE-ACT survey deployed in Romania. We explored how informed Romanian citizens are about AVs; whether they are ready to use them; and what perceptions, concerns, and attitudes might influence their mobility behaviour when using ACT systems. The present analysis mainly shows that the perceptions of Romanian citizens are widely similar to those of citizens from other countries and that, for Romania, the orientation towards unsustainable forms of individual travel is maintained in terms of the future use of AVs. The recommendations that are presented here primarily address the spatial and attitudinal factors that have been identified as prerequisites for unsustainable future mobility behaviour linked to ACT systems