Achieving a pedestrian oriented transportation system in Ankara

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Yaşdağ, Serkan
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After World War II, automobile use expanded rapidly in the developed countries. As a result, travel pattern changed entirely and automobile has become the dominant form of transport in cities. As a result, the city has been shaped and sized in response to automobile needs. Such increase caused traffic problems in the Central Business Districts and surrounding areas. The problems of traffic congestion and pedestrian circulation have become an important issue in the whole city. As traffic problems have grown in developed cities, they had to be engaged in managing travel demand of people in order to provide mobility and access with reference to the advancing principles of sustainability. In this scope, this study shows the need of travel demand management to create a sustainable transport system. As a case, this study will evaluate the transport problems of Ankara and the place of the city in the urban transport policy process. At this point, transport problems and the transformation of road network and their impacts on the city will be examined in four periods. As a conclusion, urban transportation strategies needed for creating a sustainable transport system are overviewed for the city of Ankara.
City planning.
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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/15899
Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis

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S. Yaşdağ, “Achieving a pedestrian oriented transportation system in Ankara,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2006.
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