COMPARISON OF THE BUS AND RAIL SYSTEM IN DIKIMEVI - BESEVLER ROUTE


Pampal S., Avsar N., Ozcan E. C.

JOURNAL OF THE FACULTY OF ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE OF GAZI UNIVERSITY, cilt.24, sa.2, ss.293-302, 2009 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

Özet

Expansion of the cities, increasing in population and vehicle ownership and ever-changing requirements of people can be listed in basic factors that effect to the urban transportation directly. Nowadays, the local administrations of developed countries are in an intense struggle to decrease the negative effects of these factors. Expensive parking charges, big parking lots that are builded to near of the public transportation points travel to the center of cities and rail systems that serve a faster, cheaper and more comfortable travel service, which are applied for to prevent the vehicle traffic in the center of the cities, can be lined up as the important projects that were improved. In this study, bus and rail system that are used in the Dikimevi-Besevler route in Ankara have been compared according to the various parameters and suggestions have been developed for improving of traffic.