Interferences between Sustainable Mobility and Economic Development in Romania

Abstract The working paper aims to analyse the development opportunities in Romania of the sustainable mobility concept and also the process influences on the national economy. Therefore, the paper presents the main characteristics of the sustainable mobility system and development conditions in Romania. From this perspective, an important part of the study will analyse the possibilities and requests of the development and modernization of multimodal transportation. Using analytical, comparative and descriptive methods, the working paper investigate the efficiency elements respecting the promotion of multimodal transportation compared to the road, rail or naval. Based on these researches, it is obvious that for supporting the sustainable mobility in Romania it is necessarily to develop the multimodal transportation. In this context, the study also presents the current situation and perspective of multimodal transportation in Romania. As a major conclusion, the Romania's economic policies, aiming to reduce the energetic consumptions, to rise the efficiency of goods and persons transportation within a better quality of transportation offer and to reduce the environmental negative effects due to transportation, will be positively and major influenced by achieving a sustainable mobility system.