An assessment of the CO2 emissions reduction in high speed rail lines: Two case studies from Turkey

2017-11-01
Dalkıç Melek, Gülçin
Balaban, Osman
TUYDES-YAMAN, Hediye
CELIKKOL-KOCAK, Tumay
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Transportation sector is one of the major emitters of greenhouse gases due to high consumption of fossil fuels in passenger and freight transportation. In recent years, high speed rail systems (HSR) have become an important policy option for intercity transportation in many countries, including Turkey, as they have relatively low emissions impact. Currently, the total HSR network in Turkey extends to 1213 km and connects 7 cities mostly located along a main HSR corridor. Annual ridership of the first two lines, Ankara-Eski ehir (ANK-ESK) and Ankara-Konya (ANK-KON), have reached almost 2 million passengers each, while total ridership in all four lines was about 3.5 million passengers in 2014. With the upcoming two new HSR lines, total length of HSR network will exceed 3000 km by 2020.
Survey, Modal shift, Mitigation, Reduction, CO2 emissions, High speed rail
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/32123
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Article

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G. Dalkıç Melek, O. Balaban, H. TUYDES-YAMAN, and T. CELIKKOL-KOCAK, “An assessment of the CO2 emissions reduction in high speed rail lines: Two case studies from Turkey,” JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION, pp. 746–761, 2017, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/32123.
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