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The Tool for Rapid Assessment of City Energy (TRACE) is used for conducting rapid assessments of energy use in cities. It helps prioritize sectors with significant energy savings potential, and identifies appropriate energy efficiency interventions across six sectors-transport, municipal buildings, water and waste water, public lighting, solid waste, and power and heat. It is a simple, low-cost, user-friendly, and practical tool that can be applied in any socioeconomic setting. This report is based on the implementation of the TRACE tool in Iasi in July 2013 and it outlines ideas on what the city could further do to improve its energy efficiency performance. It details the analysis carried out and the recommendations derived as a result, for energy efficiency action plan and strategy, district heating maintenance and upgrade, non-motorized transport, public transport development, traffic flow optimization, parking restraint measures, municipal building benchmarking program, traffic restraint measures, municipal buildings audit and retrofit, and street lighting timing program.

Clean Energy --- Climate --- Climate Change --- Climate Change Mitigation and Green House Gases --- Coal --- Electricity --- Energy --- Energy Consumption --- Energy Efficiency --- Energy Intensity --- Energy Production --- Energy Production and Transportation --- Environment --- Environment and Energy Efficiency --- Environment and Natural Resource Management --- Fuels --- Hot Water --- Hydropower --- Landfills --- Natural Gas --- Population Density --- Renewable Energy --- Roads --- Sanitation --- Solar Energy --- Street Lighting --- Tax Exemptions --- Temperature --- Thermal Power --- Transport --- Urban Sprawl --- Wind Energy

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The Tool for Rapid Assessment of City Energy (TRACE) is used for conducting rapid assessments of energy use in cities. It helps prioritize sectors with significant energy savings potential, and identifies appropriate energy efficiency interventions across six sectors-transport, municipal buildings, water and waste water, public lighting, solid waste, and power and heat. It is a simple, low-cost, user-friendly, and practical tool that can be applied in any socioeconomic setting. This report is based on the implementation of the TRACE tool in Ploiesti in February 2013, and it outlines ideas on what the city could further do to improve its energy efficiency performance. It details the analysis carried out and the recommendations derived as a result, for energy efficiency action plan, district heating maintenance and upgrade, non-motorized transport, public transport development, parking restraint measures, traffic restraint measures, municipal buildings audit and retrofit, and street lighting timing program.

City Development Strategies --- Clean Energy --- Climate --- Climate Change --- Climate Change Mitigation and Green House Gases --- Coal --- Electricity --- Energy --- Energy Consumption --- Energy Efficiency --- Energy Production --- Energy Production and Transportation --- Environment --- Environment and Energy Efficiency --- Environment and Natural Resource Management --- Fuels --- Hot Water --- Hydropower --- Natural Gas --- Population Density --- Railways --- Renewable Energy --- Roads --- Solar Energy --- Street Lighting --- Tax Exemptions --- Thermal Power --- Transport --- Urban Development --- Urban Sprawl --- Wastewater Treatment --- Wind Energy

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The Tool for Rapid Assessment of City Energy (TRACE) is used for conducting rapid assessments of energy use in cities. It helps prioritize sectors with significant energy savings potential, and identifies appropriate energy efficiency interventions across six sectors-transport, municipal buildings, water and waste water, public lighting, solid waste, and power and heat. It is a simple, low-cost, user-friendly, and practical tool that can be applied in any socioeconomic setting. While this work focuses on the growth poles in Romania, the analysis was limited to the boundary of the center city of Brasov, due to the difficulty of collecting individual indicators for all the constituent localities of a metropolitan area. The report details the analysis carried out and the recommendations derived as a result, for district heating maintenance and upgrade, non-motorized transport, public transport development, parking restraint measures, municipal buildings audit and retrofit, street lighting timing program, and active leakage of water and pressure management.

Alternative Energy --- Carbon Emissions --- Cities --- City Development Strategies --- Clean Energy --- Climate --- Climate Change --- Climate Change Mitigation and Green House Gases --- Coal --- Electricity --- Emissions --- Energy --- Energy Consumption --- Energy Efficiency --- Energy Intensity --- Energy Production --- Energy Production and Transportation --- Energy Sector --- Energy Supply --- Environment --- Environment and Energy Efficiency --- Environment and Natural Resource Management --- Hot Water --- Hydropower --- Mobility --- Natural Gas --- Renewable Energy --- Roads --- Sanitation --- Solar Energy --- Street Lighting --- Tax Exemptions --- Thermal Power --- Transport --- Urban Areas --- Urban Development --- Urban Sprawl --- Vehicles --- Wind Energy

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The Tool for Rapid Assessment of City Energy (TRACE) is used for conducting rapid assessments of energy use in cities. It helps prioritize sectors with significant energy savings potential, and identifies appropriate energy efficiency interventions across six sectors-transport, municipal buildings, water and waste water, public lighting, solid waste, and power and heat. It is a simple, low-cost, user-friendly, and practical tool that can be applied in any socioeconomic setting. This report is based on the implementation of the TRACE tool in Constanta in July 2013 and it outlines ideas on what the city could further do to improve its energy efficiency performance. It details the analysis carried out and the recommendations derived as a result, for district heating maintenance and upgrade, non-motorized transport, public transport development, parking restraint measures, municipal building benchmarking program, municipal buildings audit and retrofit, street lighting timing program, energy efficiency action plan and strategy, and awareness raising campaigns.

Affordable Housing --- Clean Energy --- Climate --- Climate Change --- Climate Change Mitigation and Green House Gases --- Coal --- Desertification --- Electricity --- Energy --- Energy Consumption --- Energy Efficiency --- Energy Intensity --- Energy Production --- Energy Production and Transportation --- Environment --- Environment and Energy Efficiency --- Environment and Natural Resource Management --- Hazardous Waste --- Hot Water --- Hydropower --- Maritime Transport --- Natural Gas --- Nuclear Power --- Population Density --- Renewable Energy --- Roads --- Solar Energy --- Street Lighting --- Tax Exemptions --- Temperature --- Thermal Power --- Transport --- Urban Sprawl --- Vehicles --- Wind Energy

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Integrated Development Plans (IDPs) have been introduced in Romania as a prerequisite for accessing EU funds under the Regional Operational Program (ROP). The IDPs designed for growth poles represent a specific category of strategic planning documents as: 1) they need to be considered within the frame of the national policy to whose implementation they contribute; and 2) they represent a first endeavor to think of development across functional areas rather than confined to the administrative borders of the main cities. The objectives of this report are: i) to carry out a strategic evaluation of the seven IDPs and assess how the current plans compare with the diagnostic of the challenges identified in the work on urban development; and ii) to provide clear recommendations for the improvement of existing IDPs which will contribute to the elaboration of the future generation of plans implemented during the next programming period and will help improve the targeting of investments to enhance their economic impact.

Affordable Housing --- Capacity Building --- Cities --- City Development Strategies --- Climate Change --- Communities --- Conservation --- Cultural Heritage --- Development Policy --- Disabilities --- Diversity --- Economic Development --- Economies of Scale --- Employment --- Environment and Natural Resource Management --- Historic Buildings --- Hospitals --- Housing & Human Habitats --- Human Capital --- Legislation --- Municipalities --- National Urban Development Policies & Strategies --- Poverty Reduction --- Property Rights --- Public Buildings --- Roads --- Rural Development --- Rural Economy --- Schools --- Social Development --- Social Inclusion --- Strategic Planning --- Sustainability --- Technical Assistance --- Transparency --- Transport --- Urban Areas --- Urban Development --- Urban Economy --- Urban Planning --- Urban Poverty --- Urban Sprawl --- Waste --- Youth