The Project Steering
Committee which monitors the progress of the Sustainable Urban Transport Plan
for Trabzon Project, which started in June 2023 within the scope of the
Turkey-EU financial cooperation under the Sectoral Operational Programme for
Transport (USOP), met for the fifth time on 13 November 2024 at Trabzon
Metropolitan Municipality’s premises.
The meeting was
hosted by Gürkan Üçüncü, the Secretary General of the Trabzon Metropolitan
Municipality with the participation Tijen İğci (PhD), Head of Department for EU
Investments on behalf of the Contracting Authority, Akif Türkel, Representative
of the EU Delegation to Türkiye, Adem Koç, Contract Manager, Chief of Financial
Management Unit, İsmail Abacı.
Information on the
progress of the project’s completed and ongoing works were presented by Jose
Laffond YGES, the Project Team Leader from the TYPSA & Boğaziçi Proje &
KAISER Engineering consortium.
Following the
project’ progress presentation, participants discussed the planned and targeted
activities within the project scope. Additionally, a detailed assessment was
conducted regarding the commmon vision and scenarios. Information was provided
on the upcoming study visit to Madrid and Malaga, Spain, scheduled for November
25-30 2024 as part of the project's next phases. Subsequently, a detailed
timeline for the remaining phases of the project was presented, and the meeting
concluded with a Q&A session.