Bucharest
City background
 Bucharest is the capital city of Romania and its largest urban area. According to the 1 January 2009 official estimates, Bucharest proper has a population of 1,944,367. The urban area extends beyond the limits of Bucharest and has a population that passes 2.1 million people. Adding the satellite towns around the urban area, the metropolitan area of Bucharest has a population of 2.6 million people. Bucharest is the 6th largest city in the European Union by city limit population.
 Economically, the city is the most prosperous in Romania and is one of the main industrial centres and transportation hubs of Eastern Europe. As the one of the wealthiest cities in Romania, Bucharest also has a broad range of convention facilities, educational facilities, cultural venues, shopping arcades and recreational areas.
The city proper is administratively known as the Bucharest Municipality (“Primãria Bucuresti”), and has the same administrative level as a county, being further subdivided into six districts (called “sectors”).
Other relevant data:
• Location: south-eastern Romania
• Size: City of Bucharest - 228 km2
• Bucharest metropolitan area - 1,521 km2
• Elevation: 55-90m
Organisation of the In-Time pilot in Bucharest
The Bucharest pilot will be developed using the results of research from all partners in the consortium.
The local authority who will support the In-Time partners is the Bucharest Municipality, which owns the Bucharest Traffic Management System (BTMS), the main TISP in the city. BTMS is a completely integrated traffic and public transport management system, employing specific software (UTOPIA developed by MIZAR Automazione) and different building blocks, including complete CCTV surveillance and storage, own fibre optic network for communications, detection for vehicles etc.
Partners in Bucharest
The In-Time Partners involved in the Bucharest pilot are MIZAR Automazione, SWARCO Futurit and the University Politehnica of Bucharest.
In-Time objectives for Bucharest pilot city
- to analyse the impact on vehicles emissions through the optimisation of traffic mainly viz signalised intersections
- to address the influence of Multimodal Real Time Traffic and Travel Information (RTTI), on the traveller behaviour (departure time, mode choice, route choice,..) and the issue of user acceptance (willingness to use and follow recommendations)
- to study the effects of demand management and infomobilty services in reducing the use of private vehicles and modal shift on traffic redistribution on the city network
- to show how the use of new technologies can reduce the amount of energy needed to operate a traffic control and management system
- to evaluate the importance of using environmental efficient product life cycles with the aim of proposing a green certification for ITS procurement
- to fine tune a methodology for monitoring the system performance in terms of energy efficiency
- in general to validate the effectiveness of ICT based systems for more efficient and cleaner and safer transport in a real environment
Existing infrastructure
Bucharest benefits from the newly installed BTMS, a completely integrated system that encompasses around 100 controlled junctions, with traffic actuated centralised signalling, public transport management embedded sub-system and CCTV for surveillance in all controlled junctions.
The BTMS has an integrated architecture comprising three main components: UTC – Urban Traffic Control sub-system /PTM – Public Transport Management sub-system /CCTV – Closed Television sub-system.
Through the Web Interface MISTIC is enabled to coordinate all the BTMS subsystems and to keep them at the suitable operational level, in order to achieve the best management of traffic and transport in the City.
The MISTIC interface provides a common look and feel to the operators for the data and functionalities managed by the UTC. Operators and all traffic and transport management bodies can interact by uniform modalities, independently of the characteristics of the single system integrated in the system.
Post-pilot plans
It is estimated that the results of the project In-Time will bring more benefits to the general ITS policies in Bucharest. The involvement of the Bucharest Municipality in supporting the demonstrator and testing activities means that their representatives will have direct contact with the project components and will be well informed about the applications and the benefits these can add to the existing infrastructure. This will also help in the decisional process for the responsible factors, such as the Traffic Systematisation Bureau in the Municipality, the Street Administration and the public transport operator in Bucharest, RATB (Regia Autonomã de Transport Bucuresti – Autonomous Administration for Public Transport in Bucharest). Moreover, the results of the project can be integrated as added-on components to the already existing traffic and public transport management system (BTMS). In addition, the connection with other city traffic/public transport operators will help improving efficiency, as it has already resulted from discussions with representatives of RATB.
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