Türkiye'deki Kentiçi Ulaşım Planlaması Çalışmalarının Değerlendirilmesi (1)

Abstract

Since the 1950s, comprehensive urban transportation master plans, which analyze the interaction and the harmony between land use decisions of development master plans and transport structure, have been worldwide prepared and implemented. In Turkey, during the past 50 years, particularly in big cities, many transport studies and plans have been conducted in our cities in order to plan urban traffic and transport systems. The study has an inventory characteristic in terms of urban transportation planning studies in Turkey. In this study, the urban transport studies and plans of Turkish cities are examined and evaluated in the chronological order in a comprehensive manner. The objective of the research is a definition of the regulation proposals in macro level in order to overcome indefiniteness and disorder, and formulation of a systematic structure in the urban transportation planning in Turkey. Within this framework, the background and progress of urban transportation planning since the 1970’s in Turkey, together with planning processes, scopes, policies, approaches and proposals adopted in the studies are examined; the studies are classified and evaluated under the basis of some criteria and the achieved results are discussed. Thus, a general overview on the development of urban transportation planning practice and the studies prepared up to now in Turkey is given. Consequently, this comprehensive scientific study, which covers all of the transportation studies and plans of Turkish cities, fills a gap in literature.