A barrier-free intelligent transportation model: An application for İzmir province

Smart city has come to the fore as an approach that has recently gained importance in our country and in the world. Municipalities and various public institutions benefit from smart city applications to create better living spaces for all people. In order to provide social equality in the society, public institutions carry out projects primarily for disabled individuals. In this study, the applications that can be made to increase the transportation opportunities and comfort provided by the public transportation buses for the disabled people in Izmir province have been investigated. The transportation processes of the disabled individuals have been analyzed by using lean production methods and the applications requiring investment have been determined by identifying the wastes in the process. Investments that are considered necessary to prevent wastes have been limited in quantity by ESHOT General Management. These investments that shall be implemented on which bus lines and which bus stops have been researched by using smart city applications, data mining method and simulation application. The data obtained from the smart cards have been analyzed by data mining methods and the bus lines and stops used by the disabled passengers have been divided into three different classes by predetermined qualifications The location and lines where the investment will be made are assigned according to the qualifications of these classes by considering the planned investment numbers. The current state of the transportation model has been modelled by simulation application based on the determined pilot region to perform the benefit analysis of the present investments. Alternative scenarios have been created for the determined investments, and these scenarios have been tested on the simulation model and compared with the statistical methods. Finally, investment application suggestions have been made according to analysis results.