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 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. Data dissemination 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,
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 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. Data dissemination 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,
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