Abstract
The transport is an essential element in the most activities of our society. Therefore, it must be tackled with policy at all levels, from the overall (i.e. United Nations) to the City Councils. A major importance is solving the dilemma between the policies oriented to increase, which tends to generate more transport and the environmental policies, which require the reduction of emissions. These can be difficult to fulfill if technological development to reduce emissions are outweighed by the increase of transport. Public transport wants to improve continually his performance by meeting the citizen’s need and expectations, through high quality of public transport by implementing, maintaining and improving an Integrated Management System: Quality, Environment, Health and Safety, Social Responsibility, information security etc.
Based on the analysis realized with the local authorities (in order to identify the transport request), on the field visits (in order to evaluate the condition of the roads) and on the discussions with SC Publitrans 2000 SA (in order to evaluate their technical possibilities and to identify the economical implications) we have made proposals that will be the preliminary conditions for the development of the metropolitan transport system:
– The local public transport system (inside the metropolitan area) will have an unique character, including the payment system: the passenger will be able to us one or more than one route using a single ticket , even if the price will be different base on then zone in which the travel is realized and it will be limited in time;
– The main routes will follow the access points in Pitesti, linking Pitesti with the towns in the peripheral area/ metropolitan area and their length will be maximum 16 km (the maximum accepted value-for the most charged route Pitesti-Mioveni which is a ,,heavy public transport axe“);
– The minim accepted frequency on the main routes will be 4 trips/hour, that is a following limit of 15 minutes (it is a ,,psychological limit” the traveler must accept for the transshipment from a district route to a local one and inverted);
– At the end outside the area/metropolitan area of the main routes will be arranges buss stations where the exchange of travelers between the two transport systems local and district will be accomplished;
– The district routes will not interfere with the local metropolitan transport network, the district routes being limited to the buss stations specially arranged outside the metropolitan area;
– The buss stations inside Pitesti will be used only in the purpose of the public inter-district transport and for the local public transport.
Keywords: Transport, networks, system, methods, passenger.