Comparison of cities' transportation indicators in Turkey with multivariate data analysis

Balanced development providing that cities those located in thedifferent geographic sections of our country is able to possible withmake use of effective development policy all around the country.Provinces and regions must be measurable and comparable oneanother that is important to know about transportation infrastructurecircumstances for built a healthy transportation policy at the countrylevel. Present capacity must be fixing, depends on fixed capacity newinvestments must arrange and provide balanced transportationpotentiality all around the country instead of unplaned, independentfrom eachother, short timed solutios for the complementary subsystemdevelopment at the transportation estabilishment. Aim of this study is,detection of relation?s transportation infrastructure with one another, tofind smilar provinces group, to show become-dissimilar cities, to orderprovinces by development situation, exposure transportationinfrastructure of Turkey by using chosen social and economicalindicators and transportation situations which belong to 81 provincesaccording to present managerial essential situation of Turkey.Science Code : 708Key Words : Multivariate statistics, development, city, transportationPage Number : 238Adviser : Associate-professor Adnan SÖZEN