Analysis of Potential High-Speed Rail Routes: A Case of GIS-Based Multicriteria Evaluation in Turkey

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dc.authoridCetinkaya, Cihan/0000-0002-5899-8438
dc.authoridOzceylan, Eren/0000-0002-5213-6335
dc.contributor.authorOzceylan, Eren
dc.contributor.authorErbas, Mehmet
dc.contributor.authorCetinkaya, Cihan
dc.contributor.authorKabak, Mehmet
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-06T17:36:24Z
dc.date.available2025-01-06T17:36:24Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractAll over the world, governments, policy makers, and practitioners are searching for proper routes and corridors to invest transportation infrastructures such as new railways, highways, and multimodal ways. Although it is one of the important steps of development, finding a suitable route for new transport infrastructure is a complicated and conflicting task for of various reasons. Possible social and environmental impacts on society and increasing cost and technical pressures on decision makers are some of these reasons. Taking into consideration aspects of different evaluation criteria, a geographic information system (GIS)-based multicriteria solution approach is proposed in this study. Potential high-speed rail (HSR) routes in Turkey are considered as a case study. After gathering and processing the related GIS data, weights are assigned to each criterion by using the fuzzy analytic hierarchy process in order to indicate their relative importance. Then, the additive ratio assessment method is applied to carry out the multicriteria (13 technical, social, and demographic criteria) evaluation and selection of the suitable alternatives (among 20 HSR routes) under given circumstances. It was found that the corridor from the west part of Turkey (from Izmir and Manisa) to the Marmara region (Kocaeli and Istanbul) had the highest priority, followed by the corridor from Ankara to Kayseri. HSR trains could potentially reduce the journey times to Kocaeli and Istanbul from Izmir and Manisa, as compared with driving, by 46% and 45%, respectively. The results of this study can be used to evaluate potential HSR corridors/routes or similar transport infrastructures in other countries.
dc.identifier.doi10.1061/(ASCE)UP.1943-5444.0000674
dc.identifier.issn0733-9488
dc.identifier.issn1943-5444
dc.identifier.issue2
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85101644594
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ1
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)UP.1943-5444.0000674
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14669/1867
dc.identifier.volume147
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000648590100005
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ3
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopus
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherAsce-Amer Soc Civil Engineers
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Urban Planning and Development
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.snmzKA_20241211
dc.subjectARAS
dc.subjectEvaluation
dc.subjectFuzzy AHP
dc.subjectGeographic information systems
dc.subjectHigh-speed rail
dc.subjectMulticriteria decision making
dc.titleAnalysis of Potential High-Speed Rail Routes: A Case of GIS-Based Multicriteria Evaluation in Turkey
dc.typeArticle

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