Comparison of Light Rail Systems in Turkey with the Method of Comparative Standard Determination

A GIS-Based Analysis of the Light Rail Transit Systems in Spain

“…A larger sample could reinforce our conclusions. At the same time, other studies on LRTs mentioned at the beginning of this article, are limited to two [14], three [7] and five cases [50], so actually this study is quite complete by comparing to others. It would also be of interest to study the relationship of LRTs to other transportation networks, such as commuter trains or city and metropolitan buses, or ride car parks.…”

“…Second, comparative studies with LRTs in other countries could be carried out to evaluate any similarities or differences. For example, we compared the results of our study with the one on the Turkish LRT carried out several years ago [50], which had some parameters in common with ours (Table 6). Thus, in Turkey, daily service users of the smallest system (Samsum) exceeded 20,000, compared to 5000, 7000 or 9000 in some systems in Spain.…”

“…The search for parameters characterizing LRT systems is not new: In Busan, an attempt was made to define concrete parameters, such as walking distance from the LRT [49], Casello collected some of the main characteristics of LRTs in North America [12], and similar studies have been carried out in Turkey [50,51] with numerous parameters, such as number of passengers per kilometer, number of passengers carried per unit length of line, number of passengers carried per number of stations, or the daily number of passengers per urban population. Van Oort also made a description of the main European schemes [52].…”

The efficiency of the selected polish regional rail carriers in the years 2017-2020

“…According to [17], efficiency is difficult to define unequivocally but it can be defined as "carrying out activities much better than others in the same industry are doing, carrying out the same concept of business operation" [17]. Another definition given by [18][19] is that it is maximizing profits while minimizing inputs. In respect of the above, the following measures were proposed and can be called 2), most likely will not be suitable for assessing the effectiveness of carriers.…”