The importance of innovative design in the development of metropolitan public transport

Abstract

The paper identifies possible solutions of reducing the degree of urban congestion and pollution caused by the large number of vehicles which overcrowd the entrances of Romania’s big cities at rush hours, as a consequence of extending the metropolitan areas during the last decades. The experience of western states has proven the efficiency of introducing railway public transport systems with LRV vehicles, fact which led to the improvement of life quality for the inhabitants from the urban environment, as well as from the rural one. The reference examples are followed by a case study concerning a concept project made in the Faculty of Visual Arts and Design, Iasi. This project aims the conversion of a conventional Duwag M8 tram into a vehicle suited for the specific needs of metropolitan transport in the context of the inauguration of the first Iasi metropolitan railway route at a national level

Keywords

• public transport
• lrv
• design
• innovation
• sustainable technologies
• environment