Effective Sustainable Public Transportation Approaches in Izmir

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 Kamyaka Tram Project' has been analyzed in the context of Nielsen approach and it has been explained how the project can realized that factors. (C) 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.