AITS 2021



SIAR motto: „Knowledge and development, through cooperation!"

Dear friends and colleagues,

The International SIAR Congress of Automobile and Transport Engineering – „Automotive and Integrated Transport Systems – AITS 2021”, organized by Technical University of Chisinau and conditioned by the special sanitary situation, has closed its doors!

A traditional annual scientific event of SIAR – the congress benefited from the joint effort of all participants and organizers and enjoyed a well-deserved success!

We would like to thank all the participants who shared the results of their research work, presenting in the plenary and specialized sessions interesting works that produced maximum interest.

We thank the reviewers who analyzed the proposed papers, made recommendations, and made sure that this scientific event reached a high scientific level!

We thank the TUM management for the unconditional, lively support, manifested since the beginning of the idea of organizing in Chisinau the congress of automotive and transport engineering "Automotive and Integrated Transport Systems"!

We extend our warmest thanks to our collaborators and sponsors, to all those who made this remarkable scientific event possible!

Next year we will all be at the Polytechnic University of Timisoara at the next edition of the SIAR Congress! The 32nd edition of our congress!

See you there!

SIAR President
Professor Nicolae BURNETE

AITS 2021 Congress - President of Organizing Committee
Assoc. Professor Victor CEBAN

SIAR General Secretary
Professor Minu MITREA


The Society of Automotive Engineers of Romania - SIAR organizes in the autumn of 2021 the XXXI edition of the International Congress of Automotive and Transport Engineering with the main theme "Automotive and Integrated Transport Systems - AITS 2021".

To find out the travel conditions in the Republic of Moldova, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, visit: https://www.mae.ro/travel-conditions/3739.

Important topics addressed by the AITS 2021 Congress:

  1. Green Vehicles
  2. Advanced Powertrain and Propulsion
  3. Integrated Transport Systems
  4. Automotive Design and Testing
  5. Advanced Engineering Methods
  6. Road Safety
  7. Mobility Sustainability
  8. Materials, Automotive Technology and Maintenance
  9. Economics and Management in Transportation

For the first time, the host of the International Congress of SIAR "AITS 2021 - AUTOMOTIVE AND INTEGRATED TRANSPORT SYSTEMS" will be the Department of Transportation within the Faculty of Mechanical, Industrial and Transport Engineering of the Technical University of Moldova, Chisinau, one of the centers of excellence in research application and fundamental in the field of engineering of motor vehicles and road transport, with a wide national and international recognition.

The assignment of the responsibility for organizing the annual international congress of SIAR for automotive and transport engineering of the SIAR Branch of the Technical University of Moldova in Chisinau was decided by the General Meeting of the SIAR held at the University of Craiova on October 23, 2019. Within the same works, the General Assembly decided that the organization of the 2022 edition of the SIAR Congress should be assigned to the SIAR branch of the Polytechnic University of Timisoara.

The congress will be accompanied by a series of events for academics, researchers, engineers and  specialists in the field of automotive and road transport: exhibition of products specific to the automotive and auto components industry, work-shops, technical visits, the general assembly of the SIARs members, the final stage of the international contest  for students in automotive engineering  „Professor  Constantin GHIULAI "  with the two sections "Automotive Dynamics” – the 7th edition, and "„Automotive CAD – CATIA” – the 4th edition.

The proceedings of AITS 2021 containing the reviewed and accepted papers for presentation at AITS 2021 will be published in two volumes, as follows: a volume with IOP Publishing Ltd, UK (http://conferenceseries.iop.org/) and another one with the Publishing House of the Tehnical University of Moldova.

The active exchange of ideas, together with the mobility of the researchers, characterizes the current society and is one of the engines of development of the field of automobile engineering. The participation in the congress's work of a large number of specialists from the academic, social and economic fields in the country and abroad will allow the creation of a favorable framework for dealing with the important issues that concern the contemporary society and constitute continuous challenges.

Conference Information