High Speed Railways, Development Period and Competitiveness With Other Transportation Modes

Abstract

High speed railways can be considered as a new railway class which is provided by enhancing the criteria’s like level of serviceparameters, infrastructure and capacity of conventional railways for more than forty years. A rapid entrance to high speed railwaysector has been emerged in Turkey that important investments have been done and is done. Firstly, Ankara-Eskişehir High SpeedRailway Line has been completed, then Ankara-Konya High Speed Railway Line was started to operate, after that Eskişehir-Konya High Speed Railway line connection has been opened. Objectives of the thesis are expressing the development period ofthe sector, evaluation of high speed railway definitions, researching on the perspectives of level of service parameters andcapacity and making compares with other modes.

Keywords

• capacity
• high speed railways
• intermodal integration
• passenger transportation