Papers by Eda Beyazit
Journal of Transport Geography
Süleyman Demirel Üniversitesi, 2017
Case Studies on Transport Policy, 2019
Planning Theory & Practice, 2016
Abstract Transport demand models have a long history of being a major tool in transport policy ma... more Abstract Transport demand models have a long history of being a major tool in transport policy making. However, whether they are truly used in decision-making processes, and if so, whether the knowledge they provide is actually understood, is questionable. The potential contribution they can make and the importance of such models is not disputed; however, evidence shows that many issues arise with their actual use that severely limits their potential contribution. Based on case study methodology and analysis of the use of models in the transport policy processes in two countries, the UK and Israel, this paper aims to provide empirical evidence of the issues contributing to limiting the potential contribution of models and to make recommendations for better utilisation of the knowledge they can produce. The main conclusion reached is that transport models must be made simpler if they are to contribute more than they currently do to decision-making in transport policy and planning.
Journal of Transport Geography, 2015
Transport Reviews, 2011
School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Taylor and Francis TTRV... more School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Taylor and Francis TTRV_A_504900.sgm (Received 15 January 2010; revised 27 May 2010; accepted 24 June 2010) 10.1080/01441647.2010.504900 Transport Reviews 0144-1647 (print)/1464-5327 ( ...
Moving Towards Low Carbon Mobility
The start of the twenty-first century is marked by high levels of mobility: people, capital, fina... more The start of the twenty-first century is marked by high levels of mobility: people, capital, finance, technology, commodities, ideas and information as well as risks and disasters are increasingly recognized as being ‘on the move’. As noted in Chapter 1, more people are travelling further to reach places of employment, education, health, leisure and other activities and there is a general consensus on the need for reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, especially from transport. Strategies are being developed by governments and especially by companies in the energy and automobile sector in order to overcome the consequences of this situation. However, the main criticism towards this approach is that such measures solely cannot reduce the negative impacts of transport on climate, and more drastic changes are required. Banister (2008) proposes the sustainable mobility paradigm as a way forward to solving the problems that we are facing, arguing that there is a crucial need for a change especially in the way in which people travel and how much they travel. In the above context, the purpose of this chapter is to understand the role of the culture of performing mobilities in influencing the way in which people travel and how much they travel, and to find out whether there is a need to reformulate our ‘mobility cultures’ in order to build a low carbon society. First, the new mobilities paradigm is briefly reviewed
In this thesis, socio-spatial processes regarding the distribution of transport infrastructures a... more In this thesis, socio-spatial processes regarding the distribution of transport infrastructures are investigated and the ways in which inequalities occur as a result of these processes are discussed. The transport system of Istanbul and particularly, the Istanbul Metro, the first modern subway of the city, has been the focus of this research. In order to understand inequalities in transport, social and spatial justice theories have been employed. Discussions have been extended in order to include different approaches to the issues of transport inequality from various disciplines such as geography, sociology and urban planning. In this sense, this study is multi-disciplinary. Debates on land rent theory, space and power, gendered mobilities, social exclusion and the right to the city are among the many concerns that formed the main arguments of this research. In this thesis, transport is taken as a fixed, an immobile commodity that produces mobile and dynamic commodities such as mobi...
Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment
Transport demand models have a long history of being a major tool in transport policy making. H... more Transport demand models have a long history of being a major tool in transport policy making. However, whether they are truly used in decision-making processes, and if so, whether the knowledge they provide is actually understood, is questionable. The potential contribution they can make and the importance of such models is not disputed; however, evidence shows that many issues arise
with their actual use that severely limits their potential contribution. Based on case study methodology and analysis of the use of models in the transport policy processes in two countries, the UK and Israel, this paper aims to provide empirical evidence of the issues contributing to limiting the potential contribution of models and to make recommendations for better utilisation of the knowledge they can produce. The main conclusion reached is that transport models must be
made simpler if they are to contribute more than they currently do to decision-making in transport policy and planning.
Assessment of the Wider Economic Impacts (WEIs) of transport infrastructures has become crucial f... more Assessment of the Wider Economic Impacts (WEIs) of transport infrastructures has become crucial for justifying transport infrastructure investments, especially large-scale projects, not only for transport researchers but also for policy makers. Although the WEIs have been widely discussed in transport research and policy for more than a decade, these discussions lacked an important dimension: the likelihood of transport infrastructure investments to produce spatio-economic inequalities. This paper discusses the necessity of incorporating an understanding of spatio-economic inequalities in the analysis of WEIs. In order to do that, an ex-post analysis of the Istanbul Metro is carried out. In this sense, this paper also adds to the growing number of ex-post analysis of transport infrastructures. Through its findings based on the ex-post analysis of the impacts of the Istanbul Metro, this paper concludes that contemplating spatio-economic inequalities in ex-ante analysis of transport infrastructure investments will improve the calculation of WEIs of transport infrastructures. Such an approach is expected to help policy makers investing in projects that are less likely to produce spatio-economic inequalities.
Recent theoretical and empirical studies show that there is a growing interest in considering wid... more Recent theoretical and empirical studies show that there is a growing interest in considering wider social and economic impacts of transport. Since transport has an important role in distributing socio‐economic benefits or losses created by different means or by transport itself, it has a crucial role in the discussion of social justice. This importance occurs from transport’s different effects depending on the levels or the types of equity in the distribution: transport can help develop socially just societies or cause disparities between different or within same geographies. Therefore, for the system to be efficient, the distribution needs to be socially just. This paper provides a synthesis of social justice and transport literature in terms of equal rights and shares, freedom, capabilities, opportunities and choices by making use of contemporary approaches in the social justice theory and considering the varieties in different geographies, individuals and markets. Using the Capability Approach (CA), this paper first highlights the areas which need to be discussed in transport studies in terms of social justice, and second suggests a methodology which considers social justice norms in transport research by engaging the CA with existing methods.
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with their actual use that severely limits their potential contribution. Based on case study methodology and analysis of the use of models in the transport policy processes in two countries, the UK and Israel, this paper aims to provide empirical evidence of the issues contributing to limiting the potential contribution of models and to make recommendations for better utilisation of the knowledge they can produce. The main conclusion reached is that transport models must be
made simpler if they are to contribute more than they currently do to decision-making in transport policy and planning.
Thesis by Eda Beyazit
Book chapters by Eda Beyazit
Book Reviews by Eda Beyazit
with their actual use that severely limits their potential contribution. Based on case study methodology and analysis of the use of models in the transport policy processes in two countries, the UK and Israel, this paper aims to provide empirical evidence of the issues contributing to limiting the potential contribution of models and to make recommendations for better utilisation of the knowledge they can produce. The main conclusion reached is that transport models must be
made simpler if they are to contribute more than they currently do to decision-making in transport policy and planning.