Mobility Strategy: How Do We Ensure Infrastructure Modernisation, Competitive Domestic Transport and Good Governance in the System?
Automatically translated summary. The full text is available in Romanian.
An analytical note from the Independent Think Tank “Expert-Grup” assesses the draft “Mobility Strategy 2030”, which the Ministry of Infrastructure and Regional Development published for public consultation on 21 May 2024, nine months later than planned. It offers proposals and recommendations to improve the document.
The note explains why the strategy matters: the state's large presence in transport, poor and costly services from state-owned companies, risks of clientelism and politicisation, heavy external financing, and threats to public assets through concessions or public-private partnerships.
Its recommendations call for an integrated approach to mobility, links between problems and solutions, alignment with the state ownership strategy and earlier planning documents, and measures to reduce corruption risk. The draft, however, remains fragmentary: it is divided by transport mode, and its monitoring indicators are too. Priority direction 6.8 recommends a separate aviation strategy, which undermines the integrating aim. Vision objectives are not linked to identified problems, and priority directions do not explain how they achieve strategic objectives.


