International Scientific Journals
of Scientific Technical Union of Mechanical Engineering "Industry 4.0"

The crowning of the historic aspirations of European integration, means that the Tirana-Durrës region should be able to compete as equal with other regions in Europe. So, on the one hand, the opportunities for its economic development will increase, but on the other hand, competition will intensify with other regions. This will require economic sophistication in the Tirana – Durres area, which will also be a challenge for the next decade. On the road to becoming one of the Balkans Hub, among the main objectives remain: improving infrastructure and mobility in the Region, increased competition, improving the quality of life, protection and rational utilization of natural resources. Although competitive advantage at national level has been enormous compared to other regions, at the Balkan and European levels, this advantage is lesser and controversial. Consequently, it is necessary to create a platform on which it is based d evelopment and increase the competitiveness with the regions around our country. Seeing that road networks have heavy traffic, other modes of transport and their coordination need to take on a growing role. An efficient policy in this regard would be the construction of a Freight Transport Interport, with a contemporary logistics and integrated with Intelligent Transport Systems[1]. This would be a new junction in the supply chain and would provide a solution to transport systems, developing in full harmony the interaction of Road, Rail and Maritime Transport infrastructure. In addition to the study of the respective legal framework that would support the planned interventions for the realization of ITMTD, this paper presents the results of the SWOT analysis as a recognized way of identifying, comparing and evaluating the advantages, weaknesses, opportunities and risks of a project.

In the design phase of transport systems, a significant step is also the traffic light regulation. In world practice, to evaluate the efficiency of the proposed theoretical methods, experiments on test transport systems and on real systems are carried out. The obtained results allow for the confrontation between different methods and the definition of those to be used in professional practice. For the semaphorical adjustment project, the algorithms proposed by the world literature were used in test networks with a non-large number of defining variables, so with as much semaphorized crossings in the project. This small number of variables makes it possible to find the optimal solution of the problem and evaluate how much the proposed approximation approaches this solution. While for the common topology project and traffic light regulation, algorithms were experimented in real transport systems. For this we chose two areas with about 60,000 inhabitants, respectively in Tirana and Durres. Since many of the half hypotheses used in the phase when acting on topology variables depend on one or several parameters, different values were used in order to reach their calibration . Next, the algorithms, with the calibrated parameters, will be used in another city. But this will be the subject of a future study.