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UYGAR Took Part in the 10th Transportation Council: "Target 2023"
BAHÇEŞEHİR UNIVERSITY TRANSPORTATION APPLICATION AND RESEARCH CENTER (UYGAR) TOOK PART IN THE 10TH TRANSPORTATION COUNCIL: "TARGET 2023".
The 10th Transportation Council: "Target 2023" was held at the Haliç Congress Center from 27 September to 1 October 2009 with the participation of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Minister of State and Chief Negotiator Egemen Bağış, Minister of Transport Binali Yıldırım, Istanbul Chamber of Commerce President Murat Yalçıntaş, Istanbul Governor Muammer Güler and Istanbul Metropolitan Mayor Kadir Topbaş. The Transportation Council, held for the 10th time this year, had international participation for the first time.
The council was organized so that experts could discuss the problems of the transportation and communication sectors, particularly the integration of our country into European Union and international systems and platforms, increasing competitiveness, and technological developments, competition, quality and pricing in the communication sector, enabling sounder projections for the future of both sectors. It was attended by representatives of the road, rail, air and maritime transport, urban transportation and communication sectors, scientists, representatives of central and local government and non-governmental organizations, 350 speakers from 24 countries including Germany, Belgium, France and the United Kingdom, 108 of them foreign, and the transport ministers of 21 countries.
Prof. Dr. Mustafa ILICALI, Director of Bahçeşehir University Transportation Application and Research Center, and Project Coordinator Dr. Nilgün CAMKESEN represented our university throughout the council, starting with the workshops held before it.
Prof. Dr. Mustafa ILICALI took part as moderator in the panel on "Your Expectations, Views and Suggestions on R&D and Innovation for Highways" held on 29 September 2009, while Dr. Nilgün CAMKESEN took part as a panelist in the panel on "Views and Suggestions on Sustainable Urban Transportation Superstructure and Operation Management Systems" held on the same date.
On the last day of the council, a widely attended panel was held seeking answers to questions about the 3rd bridge. Chaired by Çetin Nuhoğlu, the panel was attended by General Director of Highways Cahit Turhan, TİM President Mehmet Büyükekşi, Prof. Dr. Haluk Gerçek from the ITU Department of Civil Engineering, Promer Planning Senior Urban and Regional Planner Ahmet Turgut, Dr. Çetin Gümüşoğlu, ITU faculty member Prof. Dr. Mithat Kadıoğlu, former General Director of Highways Atalay Çoşkunoğlu, Bahçeşehir University UYGAR Director Prof. Dr. Mustafa Ilıcalı, former Head of the IMM Transportation Department Rafet Bozdoğan and Istanbul Regional Forestry Director İsmail Üzmez.
Kenan Bozgeyik, Head of the Strategy Department of the Ministry of Transport, stated that by combining the recommendations from the panels held as part of the 10th Transportation Council at the Haliç Culture and Congress Center with the workshop recommendations, the 20 most important projects of each sector were selected, and that the important projects were re-evaluated to identify 100 critical projects dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Republic. 
Accordingly, the decisions taken regarding the maritime, road, air, rail, urban, postal and communication sectors are as follows:
Road sector
- Increasing divided highways to 32 thousand kilometers. - Improving north-south road corridors.
- Building ring roads around settlements. - Building the North Marmara Motorway, Tekirdağ-Çanakkale-Balıkesir Motorway, Ankara-Delice Motorway, Ankara-İzmir Motorway, Sivrihisar-Bursa Motorway, Afyon-Antalya Motorway, Ankara-Niğde Motorway, Şanlıurfa-Habur Motorway, Aydın-Denizli-Antalya Motorway, Istanbul-Ankara-Caucasus and Iran Motorway, and Şanlıurfa-Diyarbakır Motorway.
- Snow barriers, avalanche tunnels and noise panels, emergency aid stations along highways, and hot bituminous mix paving of the highway network.
- Establishing a Highway Academy.
- Connecting all ports and organized industrial zones (OIZs) with divided highways.
- Building the Rize-Mardin Motorway.
- Establishing a Turkish Automotive Institute.
Maritime sector
- Integrating port and maritime facilities into national transportation and trans-European networks.
- Becoming a transit country through new port projects.
- Increasing handling capacity to 32 million TEU, 500 million tons of dry cargo, 350 million tons of liquid cargo and 15 million passengers by 2023.
- Increasing the share of maritime transport in domestic transportation to 15 percent (ton/km) and the containerization rate to 15 percent (TEU).
- Generating 10 billion dollars in shipbuilding revenue in the shipbuilding industry and creating new areas of employment.
- Increasing ship delivery capacity from 0.8 million DWT to 4 million DWT, or to 300 ship deliveries per year.
- Building high-value-added, advanced-technology ships.
- Building Ro-Ro terminals with 2- or 3-level vehicle loading and unloading facilities, modern, functional and suitable for intermodal transportation, for north-south and east-west transport in the Sea of Marmara.
- Diversifying routes by increasing the capacity of the Ro-Ro and Ro-Pax fleet serving Black Sea and Mediterranean ports for short sea shipping. Establishing shipyards in the Eastern Mediterranean to provide new construction and maintenance-repair services for VLCC and ULCC capacity ships.
- Creating organized supplier industry zones in areas where shipyards are concentrated. - Gradually converting 55 of the 200 fishing shelters into marinas or creating a shared-use model.
- Modernizing the merchant fleet and building at least one of the world's 10 largest ports.
- Establishing a National Testing and Accreditation Center.
- Increasing the share of R&D in the maritime economy to 2 percent in line with the national target.
- Establishing an effective environmental management system that will place Türkiye's coasts among the cleanest in the world.
- Converting piers close to one another into specialized ports and maintaining maritime legislation fully compliant with universal law and EU norms.
- Making inland waterways effective in addition to maritime transportation.
- Achieving an 80 percent domestic content share in the shipbuilding industry.
Urban sector
- Establishing a Transportation Authority and a Traffic Control Center, and making transportation master plans mandatory for all cities.
- Approval of consistency with zoning plans and accessibility for people with disabilities.
- Bringing urban transportation systems into line with EU standards.
- Establishing planning and design standards in transportation for people with disabilities and limited physical mobility.
- Encouraging domestic industry in rail systems.
- In urban traffic, the use of energy- efficient, environmentally friendly natural gas and hybrid vehicles, and the integration and improvement of sea and inland waterway transportation with public transit.
- Making urban logistics part of the Transportation Master Plan.
- Establishing city-specific parking management systems and integrating intercity transportation terminals with urban public transit systems.
- Declaring 22 September a "Car-Free" day.
- Selecting and rewarding a "Sustainable Transportation Project".
- Enacting a Railway Law compatible with the European Union and the world.
Railway sector
- Renewing existing lines and making all lines signaled and electrified.
- Completing the 2,622-kilometer high- speed train network under construction by 2012.
- Building 6,792 kilometers of new high- speed train network by 2023.
- Building 4,707 kilometers of new conventional lines by 2023.
- Building the BAŞKENTRAY Project.
- Completing the EGERAY Project and renewing the railway vehicle fleet.
- Developing technology so that trains can be operated by a single driver.
- Integrating all ports and organized industrial zones with connection lines.
- Establishing a Railway Research Institute.
- Increasing the share of rail by 10 percent in passengers and 20 percent in freight.
- Bringing the curves and gradients on lines into line with EU criteria.
- Improving level crossings and gradually eliminating them.
- Increasing the axle load on lines to at least 22.5 tons. - Building 2,960 kilometers of high- speed train lines and 956 kilometers of conventional lines between 2023 and 2035.
- Building the Batumi-Trabzon-Erzincan line.
- Building the Kavak-Kırıkkale line.
Postal sector
- Liberalizing the postal market in a controlled and gradual manner to ensure a fully competitive environment.
- Establishing a Postal Regulatory Authority. Providing registered electronic mail services.
- Exceeding universal standards in the delivery of items.
- Making Türkiye a transfer hub for sending and receiving international items.
- Taking an active role in international decision-making processes concerning the postal sector.
- Creating a Postal Sector Council. - Defining sectoral vision and strategies.
- Following environmentally friendly policies in the provision of postal services.
- Establishing a communication network for sectoral communication, promotion and information sharing.
- Expanding the use of item tracking systems, RFID and barcode technologies, and new-generation communication systems.
- Domestic production and export of technologies used in the sector, and encouraging sectoral R&D activities.
Communication sector
- Growing the IT sector to 160 billion dollars and the number of broadband subscribers to 12 million in 2013 and 30 million in 2023.
- Establishing a nationwide fiber optic network and making Türkiye a fiber hub among the countries of the region.
- Expanding fiber-to-the-home and broadband wireless access technologies.
- Making arrangements for end-to-end IP and IPv6 applications.
- Realizing the IT valley OIZ project to ensure that international IT companies establish R&D centers in Türkiye.
- Production of mobile terminal devices, with exports of such devices exceeding imports.
- Making Türkiye Europe's call center base.
- Launching laboratories that will provide certification.
- Developing the second-hand mobile device market.
- By 2023, Türkiye having at least one national company with a say in the global ICT market, at least one national brand, and at least one national product of our own design and standard.
- Implementing measures that will encourage R&D in procurement and regulations by public institutions.
- The Ministry of Transport R&D fund providing scholarships.
- Being active in areas such as providing venture capital and organizing project competitions.
- Making arrangements to launch spectrum trading practices.
- Developing regulations to prevent the illegal and malicious use of personal data.
Aviation sector
- Building an airport with a capacity of 60 million passengers in Istanbul, as well as 2 airports with a capacity of 30 million and 3 airports with a capacity of 15 million in Türkiye.
- Establishing and expanding air shuttle and air taxi operations.
- Achieving development in this area by using seaplanes to serve tourism settlements close to seas, lakes and similar places.
- Establishing and supporting a rotary-wing aircraft transportation system.
- Carrying out the necessary work for Türkiye to take part in international satellite projects.
- Expanding ground-based augmentation systems (GBAS) with ILS category I, II and III precision.
- Declaring airports suitable for air cargo transportation as "free zones".
- Enabling Türkiye to provide certification of aircraft or aircraft parts.
- Developing the national ATM technology infrastructure and reducing foreign dependency in this context.
- Domestic manufacture of at least 2 types of internationally recognized single- and twin-engine propeller aircraft and twin-engine light jet aircraft.
- Bringing the Turkish civil air transport fleet to 750 aircraft in 2023, consisting of 100 wide-body, 450 narrow-body and 200 regional aircraft.
- Türkiye acquiring the technology to place its own satellite in space and taking part in the development of new-generation engines.
- Establishing Aviation Industry Specialized OIZs and integrating unmanned aerial vehicles and airspace use into the civil aviation system.
- Ensuring that EUROCONTROL's training center is opened in Türkiye.
- Restructuring the DGCA (SHGM) and the General Directorate of State Airports Authority (DHMİ).
- Establishing an Air Transportation Research Institute.
- Integrating highland plateaus with airports that allow turboprop flights.
