The activity conditions and the quality of the services offered by the municipal transporters will improve after Chisinau Municipal Council will approve the Strategy for Public Transport Development of Chisinau municipality and the set of normative acts, aimed to ensure the practical implementation of this strategy. The declaration belongs to the experts of Business Consulting Institute (BCI), who elaborated the document together with the Technical University of Moldova. The head of BCI, Mihai Roscovan, declared on Friday, June 2, on the occasion of project’s finishing, that the goal of BCI and UTM is to help the Mayoralty to solve the problem of public transport. The implementation of the strategy is planed for a period of 4 years and is based on developing concurrency, attracting private operators, and inclusively on attracting private investments in the area. According to Roscovan the foreign investments can be attracted only if clear rules are settled, and these rules already have been elaborated by BCI, only their approval being necessary. Over the last years, the Municipal Council refused several times to examine the increase of tariffs in the public municipal transport, invoking the necessity of examining on whole the problems with which are dealing the municipal transporters and elaborating a development strategy. But in order to accomplish these goals, the elaboration of the regulatory framework on the organization of urban transport, the tariff calculation methodology, the bid organization method for transport routes etc. was needed to be elaborated. The strategy proposes the reorganization of the General Department of Public Transport and Communication ways (GDPTC), by creating a subdivisions which would deal namely with the public transport. According to Roscovan, specialists and grants will be attracted; projects for increasing the capacities of this subdivision will be elaborated. The authors of the strategy emphasized the transport management organization, for this aim 500 thousand lei being necessary, half of which can be obtained out of grants. Roscovan mentioned that the “biggest part” or 3 billion lei of the total expenses for implementing the strategy, will be spend for the construction of the roadways and of the infrastructure, and identifying these financial sources will be a problem for the municipality. Referring to the methodology of tariff approval, Mihai Roscovan said that considerable efforts were made in order to make clear rules: operators can demand for increasing the tariffs only in case when this fact will be economically justified, and CMC will approve to subsidize from the budget the increased tariff. For the case when the Council will consider the tariffs “beyond all bearings” for the population, subsidizing mechanisms both for the public urban transport and the socially-disadvantaged categories were created. Although there are discussions upon delegating the function of approving the tariffs to an independent institution, BCI considers that CMC must be responsible for this, being the body responsible for everything happens in Chisinau municipality. The strategy was discussed by now by the authors and the municipal Councilors within the specialized commissions of CMC. Examining the documents is planned for the next meeting of CMC. Roscovan believes that CMC is obliged to approve such a strategy, even if it will change some settlements. At the same event, the head of GDPTC, Veaceslav Tarna appreciated the draft strategy. According to the quoted source” an important and necessary thing was done” in order to perform major changes in the public transport of the municipality both administratively and managerial. The strategy and the afferent normative acts were elaborated during the last 10 months by BCI together with Technical University of Moldova, within the project “The management of public urban transport in the Chisinau municipality”, with the financial support of the Institute for Open Society in Budapest.