Railway consultant.
Founder of RT Media & Consulting.
Founder and editor of Rail Turkey.
Although sleeper trains become less and less popular as daily life speeds up with planes and high speed trains, they are still the first choice of travellers who are looking for comfort and adventure.
Rail solutions started to get considerable shares from public transport in metropol cities of Turkey.
Train services from Istanbul to Bucharest and Belgrade started this weekend.
Passenger trains are getting slightly over 1% of share among all travels.
Baku-Tblisi-Kars railway was announced to be commissioned at 2017 summer.
There are 13 ports in Turkey with rail connection.
Rail transportaiton systems develop fast in metropols of Turkey.
By today, 2018 network statement is published by TCDD and competition has started for allocation of train paths for TCDD Tasimacilik and other private train operators.
While Turkey’s neighbours step forward in transit rail traffic, Turkey is working on the transit rail freight projects to increase its share of transit traffic in region, which is almost nothing by now.
The intermodal traffic between Turkey and Europe has developed very fast in recent years.
About 20% of over 20 thousands of freight wagons are owned by private companies in Turkey.
Terminals are the hearts of rail freight, playing an important role on the competitiveness of rail against other modals.
Baspinar-Gaziantep-Oduncular railway stretch will be closed for 14 months.
Although railway is the least prefered modal among all in Turkey, there’s an annual volume of 25 mn tonnes of rail freight which is about 4 % of all loads.
Turkey’s new train operator, TCDD Tasimacilik, is going to invest 586 mn passenger train sets, locos and freight wagons in 2017.
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