Cristian Adorean

Polytechnical Institute of Lisbon | ISEL · Departamento de Engenharia Civil

More than ever before, today’s cities are significantly multi-cultural and heterogeneous. Intrinsically, the modern city centre is the most easily recognisable urban area by both locals and visitors or tourists, due to a concentration of significant functions. In this pa-per, we discuss the physical and historic centre of Cluj-Napoca, the place tha...

Any scientific inquiry and didactic activity needs to have a positive impact on the target group in order to reach the desired objective, in this case, raising awareness in an academic community by excellent teaching. To do so, the activities that took place during an internal fellowship in Babeș-Bolyai University not only helped the participants u...

This paper is based on the research results of an internal fellowship project implemented in 2019 and supported by the STAR-UBB Institute, belonging to Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania. The project is titled "Digital Cluj-Napoca: Enabling Learning and Research by Integrating the Most Recent Trends for Knowing about and Using Urban Ar...

Rezultat al unei practici de planificare teritorială, organizată în Ținutul Pădurenilor, lucrarea de față prezintă soluții de reziliență la unele provocări cu care se confruntă comunitatea locală, fie că vorbim de depopulare, diluarea tradițiilor, declinul platformelor industriale sau emigrare accentuată a populației. Astfel, cele 5 idei de proiect...

BACKGROUND:Historically, the transport sector has been male-dominated in all countries, including Portugal. In recent years, Portugal has struggled to balance the proportion of men and women working in the transport sector through policies, programs, and awareness campaigns. In most cases, the overall impact has been rather unsatisfactory, question...

Walking is generally associated with short-distance trips and is also used as a complementary mode of transport, particularly for the first and last mile, in both daily life and on exceptional occasions such as during special events. In this context, mega-events pose challenges in terms of urban transport management due to a variety of factors, suc...

Urban development increasingly relies on micromobility, favoring walking, bicycles, and e-scooters. This study reviews urban changes, defining micromobility by technical and usability traits. Micro vehicle initiatives started in the 1960s, but "micromobility" surged in the 21st century with electric modes. Definitions vary; here, micromobility invo...

The International Congress on Proximity Planning (June 26 - 28, 2024) has presented original research papers that explore the thematic and empirical challenges and opportunities that arise in the application of proximity-based planning in cities. Proximity is a planning principle with a tradition of more than a century, recently revived by circumst...

Rural tourism is a form of tourism that takes place in non-urban areas and is characterized by traditional lifestyle, rural culture, and nature-based activities. Over time, its features drew attention not only to more and more visitors, but also to researchers, transforming it into one of the most active fields of scientific study. The main objecti...

Women’s mobility patterns differ from men’s regarding accessibility to the various transport services, transport safety, and personal security while travelling. These differences are explained by local transport supply, economic status, income, education level, perceptions or personal aspirations. By using GIS and Python coding, spatial analysis, d...

Historically, the transport sector has been male-dominated in all countries, including Portugal. In recent years, Portugal has struggled to balance the proportion of men and women working in the transport sector through policies, programs, and awareness campaigns. In most cases, the overall impact has been rather unsatisfactory, questioning the nec...

Transport authorities struggle to find appropriate mobility solutions to new challenges produced by societal phenomena, such as pandemic and other health and ecological issues, urbanisation, demographic shift, social exclusion, or lack of equity in accessibility. However, the introduction of new transport infrastructures and their consolidation ove...

A introdução de portagens nas autoestradas nacionais operadas em regime Sem Custos para o Utilizador (SCUT) e a subsequente aplicação generalizada de descontos sobre as taxas de portagem em vigor tornou estas operações num living-lab e numa oportunidade ímpar, a nível nacional, para analisar elasticidades procura-preço no sistema rodoviário naciona...

Gender aspects are a hot topic in different scientific fields, with a growing interest in the transport field. Since transport systems in both developed and developing countries are not gender-neutral, assessing mobility patterns by using gender disaggregated data may highlight various 'hidden' aspects of mobility behaviours of both men and women....

Passenger experiences with public transport are expected to be safe, secure, comfortable, convenient, and pleasant. However, this experience is often disrupted by harassment incidents, such as sexual, theft and verbal harassment that may affect passengers' perspective towards public transport services. Security perceptions and harassment experience...

The university city of Cluj-Napoca in Romania is one of the clearest examples where ‘the night’ (including restaurants, bars, discotheques, clubs, and also museums, exhibitions, and theatres) has been essential for the vitality of the city. Despite the importance of ‘the night’ for the everyday life of the city, the role of the night-time leisure e...

In this paper, we report on a project implemented in July and August 2019, in Babeş-Bolyai University, in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, entitled “Digital Cluj-Napoca: Enabling Learning and Research by Integrating the Most Recent Trends for Knowing and Using Urban Areas”. This project aimed at developing university students’ competences to explore and repre...

In this paper, we report on a project implemented in July and August 2019, in Babeş-Bolyai University, in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, entitled “Digital Cluj-Napoca: Enabling Learning and Research by Integrating the Most Recent Trends for Knowing and Using Urban Areas”. This project aimed at developing university students’ competences to explore and repre...

This paper analyses information and university students’s opinions, from the Faculty of Geography of Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, regarding the field trips organised during their studies. Information and opinions were collected by means of a questionnaire administered in 2017. There were analysed: the number of field trips student...

We live in an era in which public life within the urban space is in a profound crisis. The urban and economic development, corroborated with the technological advances, often determine public space to be replaced by remote social interactions. Thus have appeared more and more private spaces (i.e. commercial centres), culminating with an increasingl...

Mărului Valley is a left tributary of Someșul Mic River that crosses the Cluj Hills along about 17 km, creating a drainage basin of 75 km². The Mărului stream flows NW‐SE and confluences with the collector river in Iclod village. It is an asymmetrical valley of cuesta type (Savu, 1963), carved in Miocene deposits (Ciupagea et al., 1970). The morpho...

We analysed university students’ opinions about their gained educational and personal benefits and challenges faced during an international and interdisciplinary workshop on urban regeneration, organised with the collaboration of Babeș-Bolyai University, in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, in the period 31st May-2nd June 2018. The M.Sc. and Ph.D. students tak...

We live in an era in which public life within the urban space is in a profound crisis. The urban and economic development, corroborated with the technological advances, often determine public space to be replaced by remote social interactions. Thus have appeared more and more private spaces (i.e. commercial centres), culminating with an increasingl...

The urban nightlife consumption is an important anthropogenic phenomenon that should be taken into consideration within the urban and spatial planning context, especially because its effects influence territorial evolution, as well as the population's lifestyle and well-being level. The aim of the present investigation was the assessment and the ra...