Physical
infrastructure:
The road network is properly developed, having a total length
of 2,858 km, fact that ranks Timis County on the 1st place
in Romania considering the length of public roads.
The road network density is of about 33 km
a road on 100-squkm territories, being higher than the national
road network density figure (31 km a road on 100-squkm territories).
Timis County is crossed by two European classified
roads (E) and three National classified roads (DN):
- E 70, enters Romania from the Yugoslavian border point
(Moravita in Timis County), and makes the connection, through
Timisoara, with the south of the country and the capital,
Bucharest. The most important localities crossed over Timis
County territory by E 70 are: Moravita, Deta, Timisoara,
Remetea Mare, Recas, Topolovatu Mare, Belint, Costeiu, Lugoj;
- E 671 crosses Timis County from north to south, assuring
in this way a good connection between the two cities, Arad
and Timisoara. It has recently been modernised, brought
up to European standards;
- DN 6, crosses Timis County in the north-west part and
its route are: county limit, through – Lugoj –
Sânnicolau Mare – Cenad - to the Hungarian border;
- DN 59, crosses Timis County in the southwest part and
its route are: Timisoara – Moravita -Serbian border.
- DN 69, crosses Timis County in the north - northwest
part and its route are: Timisoara-Ortisoara - county limit.
The Public Administration authorities initiated
large actions in order to improve the road infrastructure
quality as well as for the extension of the actual network.
The project for the future highway Nadlac – Arad –
Timisoara - Bucharest connecting the western part of Timis
County to the 4th Pan-European road circulation corridor is
under development.
Timisoara City is situated on the 4th Pan-European
road circulation corridor, on a section planned to be modernised
in order to facilitate the access between important urban
centres in Europe, Balkan Peninsula and the Near East, (Dresden,
Prague, Bratislava, Budapest, Bucharest, Constanta, Sofia,
Thessalonik, Istambul). Two main ramifications of this corridor
– towards Bucharest and Sofia - will make a junction,
in the Timis County area.
The railway network (787 km) set up in the
last century due to the development of Timis County’s
industry encompasses nowadays the densest railway in Romania
(91 km of railways on 1000-squkm territories).
Timisoara city is the main railway crossing point of the province,
followed by Lugoj, Gataia, Buzias, Sânandrei, Jebel,
Voiteg, Periam, Lovrin, Sânnicolau Mare and Jimbolia.
The electrified railways represent 14% of the total length
of the railway network (34% on national level).
Two international railways routes crosses
the Timis County’s territory:
- The South Main Route is of national and international
interest and passes through Bucharest – Craiova –
Timisoara - Jimbolia, crossing the plain of Banat along
115 km, being connected with Kikinda (Serbia).
- The Western Main Route starts from Timisoara to Baia Mare,
crosses the Tisa Plain and makes the junction in Ilia with
the main railway Arad – Brasov - Bucharest.
Timis County has two cross-border points
- customs with Iugoslavia (road and railway connection) at
Stamora Moravita and Jimbolia, and a cross-border point with
Hungary at Cenad (road connection).
The International Airport of Timisoara,
located in the northeastern part of the city, ensures air
transports. It is a back-up airport for Otopeni International
Airport (Bucharest), Budapest and Belgrad, being the second
airport of Romania (in terms of importance and size) and the
most important airport in the DKMT Euroregion.
The international airport offers regular flights by several
domestic and international air companies (Tarom, Austrian
Airlines, JAT etc.), ensuring good connections for passengers
and freight transports with a lot of cities inside and outside
Romania (Bucharest, Frankfurt, Düsseldorf, Stuttgart,
Vienna, New York, Verona, etc).
The endowment of the airport allows access of modern airship
used by well-known companies, including the Airbus-310 type,
being the most important aerial gate for the county and for
the region.
As a result of the regional economic growth
and of the traffic increase (passengers and commodities) a
project for the airport modernising were born. The project
includes expanding and modernising the aircraft landing tracks,
modernising the beacon light system and the passengers air-stations
providing in this idea new equipment in order to improve quality
of the airport services.
As regards the waterways, the most important
shipping canal of the region is the Bega canal. It continues
on the Yugoslavian territory and was navigable in the past,
too.
The Bega canal offers the possibility to
access the 7 Pan- European corridor Danube-Main – Rhine,
a fluvial diagonal line which connects the north-west of Europe
to the south-east (The North Sea to The Black Sea).
Nowadays, one of the public local administration priorities
is to restore the Bega Canal’s navigability in order
to develop tourism-leisure and goods transportation.
Distribution networks - The gas distribution
network extends over all towns and includes a great number
of communes. The electricity distribution network is well
organised all over the county.
The town’s heating network system is
relatively extended but have some insufficiencies regarding
maintenance and .
The town’s water supply has capacity
problems regarding treatment, stocking and distribution.
A wealthy hydrographic drainage contributes
to the growth of the water supply potential of the area. In
the hill and mountains areas there are a great number of storage
basins with insufficiently used resources.
In last years, the telecommunication network
experienced an outstanding development increasing access to
domestic and international modern communication means. An
essential role in this respect was played by the penetration
in the area of the large expert companies (the operation in
Timisoara of the Alcatel Joint Romanian-French Company, which
produces digital telephone exchanges).
Timis County is ranked among the first counties
in Romania in respect of the public telephone booths and of
subscribers connected to digital telephone systems. It is
also ascertained a strong development of the mobile telephony.
The big mobile phone operators from Romania are also present
in Timis County (Orange, Connex, Cosmorom, Zapp-mobile). |