Spatial Distribution of the Rail Freight Demand in Turkey Prior to Railway Reform

Cebeci, Alper; Tuydes-Yaman, Hediye; Islam, Dewan Md Zahurul

doi:10.1016/j.rtbm.2021.100658

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“…A liberalization law was enacted in 2013, allowing the private sector to operate its own vehicles on existing railway lines and ending the monopoly and privileged legal status of TCDD in railway transportation ( 52 , 54 ). The objective was to promote competition for TCDD, improve service quality, and enhance the competitiveness of railways against other modes of transportation ( 55 , 56 ). Nevertheless, the participation of the private sector in railway transportation is still below the expected level as a result of infrastructural deficiencies and the absence of a suitable competitive environment.…”

Section: Rail Policy In Turkeymentioning

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“…With this law, the private sector was allowed to operate its own vehicles on existing lines, and the monopoly and privileged legal status of TCDD on railway transportation were ended (Göçgün, 2018;Zeybek, 2018). Thus, it is aimed to increase the competition of TCDD with other operators, enhance the service quality, and increase the competitiveness of the railway against other modes of transport (Kurt, 2017;Cebeci et al, 2021). However, the private sector's participation in railway transportation is still far from the expected level due to the infrastructural inadequacies and the absence of a suitable competitive environment.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Service Quality in Rail Systems: Listen to the Voice of Social Media

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Service quality is essential to increase and maintain user loyalty to the railway system. In the literature, surveys have been used to measure user satisfaction, and mathematical methods have been applied to quantify the survey results. In recent years, user-generated content, including comments and complaints shared via social media, has been used to measure the quality of rail services. This content may provide important insights into the quality of the service provided with its dynamic structure. In this study, a SERVQUAL-based social-media analytics approach is used to measure railway service quality, placing special emphasis on the temporal variations in a national rail system. Topic modeling was used to assign each content item to the relevant service dimension and sentiment analysis was applied to measure the level of satisfaction. Importance–performance analysis was employed at the final stage to generate policy suggestions. Gathering more than 2.3 million social-media messages posted from 2011 to 2021, we examined the temporal evolution of service quality of the Turkish rail system. The results reveal the most and least important services and the satisfaction level of each dimension. The differences between the priorities of conventional and high-speed rail passengers are defined, and policy recommendations are presented.

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Service Quality in Rail Systems: Listen to the Voice of Social Media

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Taşkın,

Cebeci

et al. 2023

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation R

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“…A significant number of researchers deal with the modelling of spatiality, thanks to the increasingly advanced and complex systems and task management software and the IT tools that provide the appropriate computing and storage capacity. Economic actors and goods can also be identified by their location, so the models could also have a as an additional area in terms of market conditions, such as the analysis of changes due to rail liberalisation and GDP [13,15]. Another significant area is the development of intermodal transport, including the role of rail freight.…”

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A Spatial Economic Study of Rail Freight in the European Economic Area

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Mészáros

2022

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The present study explores whether the European Union’s transport policy measures of the last decade have fulfilled the expectations, i.e. whether there has been a positive change in the field of rail freight transport in the region. Data on the volumes of freight transport in the recent period have been analysed with freight transport intensity as an indicator. The values have been then translated into a spatial econometric model, looking for spatiality in the European Economic Region, including countries such as Norway, Switzerland or even Russia, extending the scope of the study to 37 countries. It has been proven that there is a spatial correlation between rail freight transport performance and GDP in Europe, which has a positive effect on countries with high GDP and a negative effect on low GDP countries in terms of performance. There is a particularly high intensity of rail freight in the Baltic region, as well as in Ukraine and Russia. Furthermore, it can be stated that rail freight has not undergone any significant changes in the last 10 years.

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“…India has expanded the volume of RCT by altering its RCT policies ( 17 ) to foster and favor sustainable development of freight transport ( 18 ). The rail freight reform of Turkey has increased the freight demand ( 19 ) and focused on the relationship between freight growth and economic growth ( 20 ). The completion of China's “eight vertical and eight horizontal” railway network ( 21 ) and the speeding up of railways will promote the polarization of the railway freight space ( 22 ).…”

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Evolution of spatial and temporal patterns of railway container transportation: A case study of China cities

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Kuang²,

Yang³

et al. 2022

Front. Public Health

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The healthy development of railway container transport is an important part of railway freight transport and is key for promoting the green transformation of China's transport and supporting a new pattern of transport development. In this study, railway container handling station (RCHS) data, kernel density analysis, standard deviation ellipse, Herfindahl–Hirschman index (HHI), trend surface analysis (TSA), and R index were applied to examine the evolution characteristics of container transport patterns after the market-oriented reform of China's railway freight transport in 2013. The results are as follows: First, the overall scale growth trend is obvious, and the double-center effect of transport scale on the Bohai Rim region and Chengdu–Chongqing Economic Zone is evident, with the transport center of gravity moving northward. Second, the amount of attraction/occurrence is consistent in spatial distribution, and the aggregation effect of both is similar, essentially exhibiting a tendency of being high in the northwest and low in the southeast. Third, the pattern of “export-oriented in the north and import-oriented in the south” has taken shape; nearly half of cities in China have stable traffic functions, stable traffic supply, and demand relationships, and the change of functions shows that the industrial structure is constantly upgrading. This study elucidates the pattern of railway container transport in cities in China and provides empirical guidance for adjusting the functions of urban freight transport, thereby promoting the healthy development of urban freight transport and optimizing urban transport planning.

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Spatial Distribution of the Rail Freight Demand in Turkey Prior to Railway Reform

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Service Quality in Rail Systems: Listen to the Voice of Social Media

Service Quality in Rail Systems: Listen to the Voice of Social Media

A Spatial Economic Study of Rail Freight in the European Economic Area

Evolution of spatial and temporal patterns of railway container transportation: A case study of China cities

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