Journal Article

·2016 OPEN ACCESS

Effective Sustainable Public Transportation Approaches in Izmir

Yakup Egercioğlu , Kader Doğan YTU

Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences

Abstract

The most prominent of public transport, the risk of accidents, energy consumption, and congestion is lower than road transport. Considering all these reasons an important problem that urban transport on such as the environment, energy, sustainability and social balance taking into account issues, first especially in big cities resolved with scientific methods and requires the organization. When considered from this point of view, ‘Nielsen's Network Design approach for public transport’ provides us the appropriate evaluation to examine the city transportation. This approach emphasizes seamless and intra-regional public transport and has five network design factors. In this study, ‘Izmir Karşıyaka Tram Project’ has been analyzed in the context of Nielsen approach and it has been explained how the project can realized that factors.

Keywords

Public transport Sustainable transport Transport engineering Sustainability Context (archaeology) Energy consumption Business Environmental economics Traffic congestion Balance (ability) Transportation planning Environmental planning Engineering Geography Economics

Subject Areas

Public Administration and Governance ·Political Science and International Relations ·Social Sciences
Educational Research and Analysis ·Education ·Social Sciences
Educational Management and Quality ·Information Systems ·Physical Sciences

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