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Mrs. Mihaela Popa

PhD.

Professor - UNIVERSITATEA NAȚIONALĂ DE ȘTIINȚĂ ȘI TEHNOLOGIE POLITEHNICA BUCUREȘTI

Researcher | Teaching staff | Scientific reviewer | Consultant | PhD supervisor

Mihaela Popa is a professor at the Department of Transport and Traffic and Logistics, Transport Faculty, UNSTPB. She has been involved for more than three decades in the field of Transport Engineering by tutoring students in all university stages: Bachelor, Master, and PhD degrees. She is author of 90 papers, published in scientific journals and conference proceedings, of which 30 are included in the Web of Science Core Collection. Her works were cited more than 90 times, of which more than a half are papers ISI-indexed. She acted as an independent evaluator during the last decade for the European Commission's call for proposals and as a constant reviewer for scientific journals in transport engineering. Prof. Popa coordinates the PhD research activity of 12 students and approx. 20 M.Sc. students per year. She is the Director of the Transport Doctoral School (since 2017) and responsible for the M.Sc. program in Transport Management (since 2009).

Web of Science ResearcherID: J-3653-2012

Curriculum Vitae (08/05/2024)

Expertise & keywords

Strengthening the framework for improving the quality of public services and supporting local development Call name:
POCA SPC SIPOCA 9 2016 - 2019

Role in this project: Key expert

Coordinating institution: SCOALA NATIONALA DE STUDII POLITICE SI ADMINISTRATIVE

Project partners: SCOALA NATIONALA DE STUDII POLITICE SI ADMINISTRATIVE ()

Affiliation: SCOALA NATIONALA DE STUDII POLITICE SI ADMINISTRATIVE ()

Project website: http://snspa.ro/cercetare/proiecte/sipoca-9/

Abstract:

The aim of the project

To develop a unified set of tools to strengthen the capacity of public administration to efficiently and effectively deliver quality public services to citizens and business.

Specific objectives

To provide the basis for solutions on how to optimise the distribution of competences between central and local public administration authorities;

To ensure a unified vision on how to develop, implement, monitor and evaluate quality and, where appropriate, cost standards for decentralised public services;

Developing methods and tools for monitoring and evaluating the administrative capacity of local public administration authorities;

Increasing the capacity of central government authorities and institutions to exercise clear and consistent methodological leadership over the creation of public policies on decentralisation.

Results achieved

Analysis of the existing situation in terms of public services provided/delivered by public administration;

Methodology for the elaboration of quality and cost standards for decentralised public services developed and its application for the elaboration of proposals for quality and, where appropriate, cost standards for 2 areas of public services: health and pre-university education;

Proposals for quality and, where appropriate, cost standards for decentralised public services in the following areas:

social assistance

administration of the public and private domain of administrative-territorial units

Community utilities 1, namely: water and sewerage (rainwater, drinking water, waste water) and thermal services

Community utilities 2, namely: public lighting, sanitation, public transport

public order and safety and personal records

culture

youth and sport

Methodology for assessing and monitoring the administrative capacity of administrative-territorial units;

System for monitoring and evaluation of quality and cost standards and administrative capacity of units

TEN-T Core Network Corridor Study for the Rhine-Danube Corridor and Support of the European Coordinator Call name:
MOVE/B.1/FV2014-710 2015 - 2017

Role in this project: Partner team leader

Coordinating institution: iC consulenten Ziviltechniker GesmbH

Project partners: iC consulenten Ziviltechniker GesmbH (); UNIVERSITATEA NAȚIONALĂ DE ȘTIINȚĂ ȘI TEHNOLOGIE POLITEHNICA BUCUREȘTI (); HaCon Ingenieursgesellschaft (); Panteia B.V. (); Via donau, Österreichische Wasserstraßen- Gesellschaft m.b.H ()

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA NAȚIONALĂ DE ȘTIINȚĂ ȘI TEHNOLOGIE POLITEHNICA BUCUREȘTI ()

Project website: https://transport.ec.europa.eu/transport-themes/infrastructure-and-investment/trans-european-transport-network-ten-t/rhine-danube-corridor_en

Abstract:

The Study on the Rhine-Danube Corridor has led to the identification of critical issues hampering the operation of this major European transport connection in line with the provisions

of Regulation 1315/2013. The plan for the removal of physical and technical barriers presents assumptions on the compliance with Regulation 1315/2013 by 2030, based

on the expected contributions of the identified planned projects to the Corridor’s development, and shows issues, where there is still a need for actions.

Research on estimation and enhancement of intrinsic safety performances for urban traffic networks Call name: Joint Applied Research Projects - PCCA-2011 call, Type 2
PN-II-PT-PCCA-2011-3.2-1439 2012 - 2016

Role in this project: Key expert

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA DIN BUCURESTI

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA DIN BUCURESTI (RO); METROUL S.A. (RO); UNIVERSITATEA DE ARHITECTURA SI URBANISM "ION MINCU" (RO); ASOCIATIA GENERALA A INGINERILOR DIN ROMANIA (RO)

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA DIN BUCURESTI (RO)

Project website: http://www.safenet.pub.ro/

Abstract:

Road safety directly affects all of the city area and all its inhabitants. This project aims to develop conceptual model and useful tools for improving the urban traffic road safety performance. Based on identified areas with low safety performances, a set of measures for reducing of accident occurring will be proposed. Adjacent objective, as improving of traffic fluency and reducing of external traffic impact will be achieved.

Having long experience in transport and traffic planning and in urbanism and land use planning, the members of the project consortium will perform fundamental and experimental research to develop urban network models, mathematical function and simulation model for estimating the safety performance for urban network.

Starting from the digitized urban physical network, which includes major and minor intersection, roads defined by infrastructure category and capacity characteristics the appropriate macroscopic digital network will be modelled. The resulted macroscopic digital network model has to be base for assigning the traffic flow.

Safety performance functions will be defined to estimate the accidents on road infrastructure features, taking into account the physical network characteristics and the traffic flow intensity.

A complex model for estimating the safety performance will be developed based on macroscopic digital urban network, urban network, macrosimulation model and the set of safety performance function. Base on analysis of the network features with low safety performances, the possible solution to improve the safety performance will be identified.

The project results will be useful tools for estimating the urban traffic safety at the planning stage, having predominant predictive character. The estimating model will allow to analyse different projects for traffic flow pattern and to identify appropriate solutions for high traffic safety performance at the stage of designing of new facilities.

Accessibility improved at border CROSsings for the integration of South East Europe Call name:
SEE/D/0093/3.3/X 2012 - 2014

Role in this project: Partner team leader

Coordinating institution: Segretariato Esecutivo dell'Iniziativa Centro Europea

Project partners: Segretariato Esecutivo dell'Iniziativa Centro Europea (); UNIVERSITATEA NAȚIONALĂ DE ȘTIINȚĂ ȘI TEHNOLOGIE POLITEHNICA BUCUREȘTI (); Aristotelio panepistimio thessalonikis (A.P.TH.) epitropi erevnon Eidikos Logariasmos Kondilion Erevnas A.P.TH. (); GEA COLLEGE - FAKULTETA ZA PODJETNIŠTVO (); Savez za željeznicu (); Regione autonoma Friuli Venezia Giulia (); AustriaTech - Gesellschaft des Bundes fuer technologiepolitische Massnahmen GmbH (); Ministria e Puneve Publike dhe Transportit (); TRAINOSE Metafores - Metaforikes Ypiresies Epivaton kai Fortiou Anonymi Sidirodromiki Etaireia A.E. (); Unioncamere del Veneto (); IFKA Public Benefit Non-Profit Ltd. for the Development of the Industry (); Bundesministerium für Verkehr, Innovation und Technologie (); Prometni institut Ljubljana d.o.o. (); Venice International University (); OBLASTNA ADMINISTRATSIA SMOLYAN (); Privredna komora Beograda (); Periferia ipirou/ periferiaki enotita thesprotias (); Unitá di Progetto Logistica - Segreteria Regionale per le Infrastrutture, Regione del Veneto ()

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA NAȚIONALĂ DE ȘTIINȚĂ ȘI TEHNOLOGIE POLITEHNICA BUCUREȘTI ()

Project website: https://keep.eu/projects/9891/Accessibility-improved-at-bo-EN/

Abstract:

ACROSSEE, Accessibility improved at border CROSsings for the integration of South East Europe, SEE/D/0093/3.3/X was a project co-financed by the EU Transnational Cooperation Programme "South-East Europe", working in line with the new EU TEN-T Guidelines and aiming at improving cross-border accessibility in the South -East Europe Area. This objective was reached by promoting prioritization and optimization of the existing network and extending the EU transport network to the Western Balkans. The ACROSSEE finalized outputs are now available in the downloads area: http://www.acrossee.net/downloads.html

Freight and Logistics Advancement in Central/South-East Europe - Validation of trade and transport processes, Implementation of improvement actions, Application of co-coordinated structures– 2CE189P2- 2010 Call name:
2CE189P2 2010 - 2013

Role in this project: Partner team leader

Coordinating institution: Technische Fachhochschule Wildau

Project partners: Technische Fachhochschule Wildau (); UNIVERSITATEA NAȚIONALĂ DE ȘTIINȚĂ ȘI TEHNOLOGIE POLITEHNICA BUCUREȘTI (); Ministerium für Wirtschaft des Landes Brandenburg (); Allianz pro Schiene e.V. (); Technická univerzita v Košiciach, Fakulta výrobných technológií so sídlom v Prešove (); ČSKD INTRANS (); Univerzita Pardubice (); FH Oberösterreich Forschungs & Entwicklungs GmbH -LOGISTIKUM (); BILK KOMBITERMINÁL Zrt. (); Instytut Logistyki i Magazynowania (); GVZ Entwicklungsgesellschaft Südwestsachsen mbH ()

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA NAȚIONALĂ DE ȘTIINȚĂ ȘI TEHNOLOGIE POLITEHNICA BUCUREȘTI ()

Project website: https://keep.eu/projects/5488/Freight-and-Logistics-Advanc-EN/

Abstract:

The project “Freight and Logistics Advancement in Central/South-East Europe - Validation of trade and transport processes, Implementation of improvement

actions, Application of co-coordinated structures” (in short - FLAVIA) is carried out under the Central Europe – Cooperation for Success Programme, co-funded by the

European Regional Development Fund. One of the main objectives of the FLAVIA project is to consolidate a logistic corridor from Central Europe (CE) to the South-East Europe

(SEE) and the Black Sea Region, based on rail and inland waterways intermodal transport.

Civic Education for Selective Waste Collection in Universities Call name:
PO-04-Ed3-RO-F2 2008 - 2011

Role in this project: Partner team leader

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA DIN BUCURESTI

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA DIN BUCURESTI ()

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA DIN BUCURESTI ()

Project website: http://ingtrans.pub.ro/proiecte-nationale/

Abstract:

The aim of the project was to develop a civic education programme for the selective collection of waste in the university campuses.

The realized activities aimed: the identification and quantification of variables for the behavioural model, the assessment of the effects of education and persuasive technologies,

the determination of the learning curve and its application, the assessment of the economic, social and environmental benefits.

The results of the project were materialized in technological and informational support for the public authorities and operators of waste collection services

in order to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of waste collection, storage and recycling activities, respectively the establishment of a system of indicators

for monitoring the activities of waste selective collection, the development of an informational system to assist the collection management.

Modeling strategic decisions for the development of transport infrastructures Call name:
CNCSIS A 879/2006 2006 - 2008

Role in this project: Project coordinator

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA NAŢIONALĂ DE ŞTIINŢĂ ŞI TEHNOLOGIE POLITEHNICA BUCUREŞTI

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA NAŢIONALĂ DE ŞTIINŢĂ ŞI TEHNOLOGIE POLITEHNICA BUCUREŞTI ()

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA NAŢIONALĂ DE ŞTIINŢĂ ŞI TEHNOLOGIE POLITEHNICA BUCUREŞTI ()

Project website:

Abstract:

Grantul de cercetare a avut ca rezultate fundamentarea criteriilor de alegere adecvate dezvoltării infrastructurilor de transport, pornind de la principiile durabilităţii în transporturi precum și o analiza critică a diferitelor modele de decizie multicriterială, utilizate în alegerea variantelor de modernizare/ devoltare a infrastructurilor de transport. A fost realizat

un model şi program de calcul pentru realizarea deciziilor strategice de dezvoltare a infrastructurilor de transport în concordanţă cu exigenţele durabilităţii şi economisirii de resurse economice, sociale şi de mediu şi cu atingerea unui anumit nivel de calitate a interacţiunii dintre activităţile economice şi sociale dintr-un teritoriu şi sistemul de transport . Rezultatele cerectărilor au fost publicate în reviste de specialitate și în volume ale unor conferințe științifice din domeniu.

Interdisciplinary and convergent solutions for land use and transport system structuring toward sustainable development and life quality improvement Call name:
2005 - 2007

Role in this project: Key expert

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA DIN BUCURESTI

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA DIN BUCURESTI (); UNIVERSITATEA DE ARHITECTURA SI URBANISM "ION MINCU" ()

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA DIN BUCURESTI ()

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Abstract:

Promoting sustainable mobility in Bucharest metropolitan area Call name:
CeEx, 104/03.10.2005 2005 - 2007

Role in this project: Key expert

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA DIN BUCURESTI

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA DIN BUCURESTI ()

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA DIN BUCURESTI ()

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Abstract:

CONcepts for lifelong learning to further increase SafeTy on rail based trANsporT systems Call name:
2006 - 2006

Role in this project: Partner team leader

Coordinating institution: Висшето транспортно училище „Тодор Каблешков”

Project partners: Висшето транспортно училище „Тодор Каблешков” (); UNIVERSITATEA NAȚIONALĂ DE ȘTIINȚĂ ȘI TEHNOLOGIE POLITEHNICA BUCUREȘTI (); FH Technikum Wien (); ФАКУЛТЕТ ЗА МАШИНСТВО И ГРАЂЕВИНАРСТВО У КРАЉЕВУ УНИВЕРЗИТЕТА У КРАГУЈЕВЦУ ()

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA NAȚIONALĂ DE ȘTIINȚĂ ȘI TEHNOLOGIE POLITEHNICA BUCUREȘTI ()

Project website:

Abstract:

The project was developed by partners from different types of countries: Austria, Bulgaria, and Romania (EU member countries) and Serbia and Montenegro (Western Balkan

countries). The joint research provided opportunities for all partners to create and compare their concepts for lifelong learning in traffic safety and transport security.

The joint research offered opportunities to the new EU member states from Southeast Europe and other West Balkan countries to get in touch with the competence and experience of the Austrian traffic safety experts. At the same time, the participants from the Balkan region investigated similar problems concerning the quality of the labor force and the possible decision by creating adequate models for lifelong learning to further increase the safety in the rail-based systems.

Researches on a virtual logistic platform for structuring Romanian logistics Call name:
PNCDI 2076/01.10.2004 2004 - 2006

Role in this project: Key expert

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA DIN BUCURESTI

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA DIN BUCURESTI ()

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA DIN BUCURESTI ()

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Abstract:

Solutions for increasing the attractiveness of urban public transport. Case study for Bucharest and the metropolitan area Call name:
7C03/09.09.2004 AMTRANS 2004 - 2006

Role in this project: Key expert

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA NAŢIONALĂ DE ŞTIINŢĂ ŞI TEHNOLOGIE POLITEHNICA BUCUREŞTI

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA NAŢIONALĂ DE ŞTIINŢĂ ŞI TEHNOLOGIE POLITEHNICA BUCUREŞTI ()

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA NAŢIONALĂ DE ŞTIINŢĂ ŞI TEHNOLOGIE POLITEHNICA BUCUREŞTI ()

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Abstract:

Research on the realization of an urban public transport system for the underserved areas of Bucharest Call name:
PNCDI 5C03/ 7.09.2003 2003 - 2005

Role in this project: Key expert

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA NAŢIONALĂ DE ŞTIINŢĂ ŞI TEHNOLOGIE POLITEHNICA BUCUREŞTI

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA NAŢIONALĂ DE ŞTIINŢĂ ŞI TEHNOLOGIE POLITEHNICA BUCUREŞTI ()

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA NAŢIONALĂ DE ŞTIINŢĂ ŞI TEHNOLOGIE POLITEHNICA BUCUREŞTI ()

Project website:

Abstract:

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