Integrated Cross-Sectorial Plan of Tirana-Durres Area

dedicated priority lines, while flows under
10,000 daily users should be supported by
alternative transport, such as a taxi, private
motorized vehicles and bicycles.
The municipalities should take measures to
identify areas for future development while
guaranteeing the protection of the spaces
for public transport corridors, preventing
urban development in these strategic
axes, ensuring buffer zones, providing
underground infrastructure in the main hubs
prior to the development of these networks.
Mobility in urban centres should be
developed not only towards motorized
vehicles, but it should also promote bicycle
mobility, ensuring the necessary road
infrastructure, mass parking areas, suitable
parking facilities during working hours and
bicycle rental stations.
The development of road axes should
provide the necessary protection to ensure
safe walking alongside the vehicles. Bicycle
lanes should be developed in such a way as
to guarantee information on the mobility.
Crossroads should be re-addressed to
support these mobility forms.
The municipalities should develop clear
regulations for the installation of bicycle
parking areas near employment centres and
public institutions.
The new urbanization areas should be
developed in such a way as to ensure that
space and buffer areas allow for the lanes
dedicated to public transport to cross
through in the future.
Regional biking itineraries
Biking itineraries outside urban areas
should be adapted with specialized lanes,
away from the movement of vehicles, to
make biking safer and more enjoyable.
It is suggested to develop ring-type biking
itineraries along waterways, rivers, lakes,
coasts and protected areas, connecting
important natural, urban and cultural
elements, and linking them to regional
natural parks.
Crossings near road infrastructure should
be designed in such a way as to guarantee
a high level of safety for bicycle users,
creating dividing barriers. Bicycle stations
in the urban centres should be attached to
stations providing other modes of transport.
Bicycle stations for long distance itineraries
may cover a range of not more than 6-8
km. They should provide opportunities to
exchange means of transport without having
to return the user to the initial point of
travel to deliver the traveling vehicle.
Pedestrian mobility in urban centres
Primary, secondary and local centres
should prioritize pedestrian mobility.
The municipalities should lay down the
conditions and development regulations to:
• Create rapid movement axes between
residential blocks for pedestrians by
eliminating barriers in housing blocks, such
as: removing dividing walls outside private
properties, eliminating interconnection
barriers between residential blocks.
• Pedestrian mobility should be based on
safe access during late hours, enabling
lighting and mobility opportunities for
disabled people.
TR5- Consolidation and regeneration
of rural centres
• Regeneration of rural centres will
be achieved by promoting the creation
of common spaces, eliminating spatial
boundaries (such as dividing walls, fences
and rails), creating zones and areas of
collective services for the community, and
creating more recreational spaces and
urban parks.
• Areas for the densification of urbanization
in rural centres should be part of the
urbanized areas of the local administrative
units. Untreated spaces in urbanized
areas should be encouraged for urban
densification through the application of
the territorial planning law or other land
management instruments. These areas /
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