The Project
Steering Committee, which monitors the progress of the Sustainable Urban
Mobility Plan (SUMP) for Trabzon project, which started in June 2023 within the
scope of the Türkiye-EU financial cooperation under the Sectoral Operational
Programme for Transport (USOP), convened for the sixth time on 19 February
2025, at Trabzon Metropolitan Municipality to evaluate the progress of the
project.
The meeting was hosted by the Secretary General of the Trabzon
Metropolitan Municipality, Gürkan Üçüncü, with the participation of, Tijen İğci (PhD), Head of Department for EU
Investments and the
experts of the Contracting Authority and the the Contractor.
Information on completed and ongoing work regarding the project's
progress was presented by Jose Laffond Yges, the Project Team Leader from the
TYPSA & Boğaziçi Proje & KAISER Engineering consortium.
During the meeting, following the project progress presentation,
participants discussed the planned and targeted activities within the project
scope. Additionally, a detailed assessment was conducted regarding the progress
of the "Stakeholder Participation Meeting," which involved over 100
stakeholders from various institutions and organizations, was evaluated. During
this meeting, the alternative scenarios and measure packages identified during
the SUMP Trabzon process were put to a vote. Technical evaluations were made on
the details and implementation processes of the project. Subsequently, a
timeline for the remaining phases of the final stages of the project was
presented, and the meeting concluded by a Q&A session.