Bucharest Bucharest ( , ; ) is the capital and largest city of Romania. The metropolis stands on the River Dâmbovița (river), Dâmbovița in south-eastern Romania. Its population is officially estimated at 1.76 million residents within a greater Buc ...

has the largest public transportation network in Romania and one of the largest in Europe. TPBI (''Bucharest-Ilfov Intercommunity Development Association for Public Transport'') was established as a cooperating structure of the local public authorities in the region, being founded on 20 October 2017. The association has its own legal personality and public utility status recognized by law, intended to jointly exercise the competencies of local public administration authorities related to the provision of public transport services.

Purpose of TPBI

The Association's objectives are: * The establishment, organization, regulation, operation, monitoring, and joint management of the local public transport services within the association's member Local Administrative Units; * Improving integrated mobility by coordinating and appropriately financing public transport services; * Strategic planning, monitoring, and approval of activities related to the authorization, organization, management, and oversight of public passenger transport services in the Bucharest-Ilfov region for buses, trolleybuses, trams, and other means of public passenger transport; * Executing the measures and investment projects outlined in the Bucharest-Ilfov Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan 2016–2030, approved by all local public authorities in the Bucharest-Ilfov region; * Implementing Regulation (EC) No. 1370/2007 of the European Parliament and Council, dated October 23, 2007, on public rail and road passenger transport services—mandatory for all member states as of December 2009—through concluding public service contracts or service management delegation agreements with public passenger transport operators.

Public transport operators

Currently, in the Bucharest-Ilfov Region, there are four public transport operators that have signed service management delegation contracts with TPBI: *

Societatea de Transport București Societatea de Transport București (STB; English: Bucharest Transport Company) is the main public transit operator in Bucharest, Romania, owned by the Municipality of Bucharest. From 1990 to 2018, the company had a different legal status and wa ...

– STB SA (Bucharest Transport Company) * Serviciul de Transport Voluntari – STV SA (Voluntari Transport Service) * Ecotrans STCM SRL * Regio Serv Transport SRL

References

{{Reflist Transport in Bucharest