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Freight Transports in Romania, between Desires and Achievements. Past, Present and Future

Year: 2015
Type: article
Abstract: Our paper goals are to highlight the main elements that marked Romanian Freight Transport development between 2000 – 2014 and to define some short term action directions. By using statistical, analytical, comparative and descriptive methods, study is an investigation of the defining elements of freight transport in Romania, on the three main modes of transport - road, rail and inland waterway. The results and the conclusions of the study highlight significant differences between what Romania aimed to achieve in the analysed period and what has succeeded. At the same time, our paper, by pointing out the weaknesses of the national strategy of development of the transport infrastructure, tries to present the main action directions that can increase the efficiency of decision – making and implicitly, the significant improvement of transport infrastructure.
Institution: Romanian Academy
Language: English
Subfield: Transportation
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W591539688
FWCI: 1.377
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Cited by: 8
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