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Bucharest Polytechnic University hosts international conference

The International Conference 'Transportation and Land Use Interaction 2008' is taking place over Oct. 23 - 25 at the Bucharest Polytechnic University. The event, organized by the Bucharest Polytechnic University alongside the 'Ion Mincu' University of Architecture and Town Planning and the Bucharest Technical University of Civil Engineering under the aegis of the Romanian Academy of Technical Sciences, is attended by 40 renowned experts from 12 countries, engineers of various disciplines, architects, town planning experts, geographers, biologists, sociologists, economists and mathematicians from Romania, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Czechia, Croatia, Germany, Poland, Portugal.

The purpose of the gathering is to take knowledge about interdependencies between land use and transportation to a higher level and identify directions of action in the context of enlarged Europe, globalization and even the post-oil era. Scientific vice-chancellor of the Bucharest University Serban Raicu remarked that a dynamic balance needs to be found between land and town planning on one side and the transportation system (capable of meeting the population's mobility and asset relocation needs) on the other side, which requires an integrated complex planning approach.

Raicu said that the local rail infrastructure is in a poor condition (low speeds, increasing speed restrictions and never ending works), poorly maintained or decommissioned stations, congested and unsafe roads, mono-functional residential neighborhoods on the Bucharest outskirts (Baneasa, Mogosoaia, Prelungirea Ghencea etc.), which lack high-capacity infrastructure and the mobility needs of which are serviced exclusively by low-occupancy rate personal cars.

The vice-chancellor said that the gap separating Romania's transport infrastructure from EU states and even other East European countries has widened in the last years.

Serban Raicu noted that considering 'such worrisome trailing', no matter how elevated the scientific level of the communications and how pertinent the debates, the International Conference 'Transportation and Land Use Interaction 2008' cannot but set the foundation for action that needs to continue by multidisciplinary, inter- and even trans-disciplinary research where human, social and exact sciences, technological and experimental research converge 'on the ground of research connected to society needs.'

The first two days of the conference, the media partner of which is the National News Agency Agerpres, are dedicated to the presentation of papers and scientific works, whereas the third day is dedicated to a roundtable meeting that will draw the conclusions of the debates.

 

Sursa: http://www.rompress.ro

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