Romania owns a network of public roads, classified according to their importance and role, with a relatively low density compared to the developed countries in Europe, but rationally distributed throughout the territory, which ensures a good accessibility of the population to the basic social services. The national programs in the field of the road transportation aim mainly at: amplifying the transportation capacities at national, county and local level through the rehabilitation, modernization or development of the existing capacities; realizing new high capacity transportation networks such as highways and express roads; building bypass roads for the urban agglomerations; building local road networks at rural level to allow the villagers' access to hospitals, schools, local administration, etc. As to the community consultation, there is a legal regulation framework, based on the Law for the Protection of the Environment, providing from this point of view favorable premises for a sustainable development of the road transportation. The following stages are taken into account in the community consultation: identifying the development requirements of the road network; identifying the population's options at the macro-level; identifying the detail options, required for assessing the impact upon the natural and human environment, adopting certain solutions to minimize the negative effects and enhance the positive ones, respectively. The community consultation process at the level of identifying the detail options unfolds during the entire realization of the project (starting with the design phase) and applies with positive results to the large projects (highways, rehabilitation of major roads). The other projects are not neglected either, the evaluation of their impact upon the environment being mandatory. The transfer of technology is one of the most used modalities for the realization of highly performant road infrastructure projects. The report shows the methods applied in Romania for the realization of the technology transfer. It is emphasized that Romania has a technologic transfer knot within the INTERCHANGE network. For the covering abstract see ITRD E135448.
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