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Economic vulnerabilities and pandemic mobilities: Mobility of low-income populations in İstanbul during the Covid-19 pandemic (2023)
Journal Article
Akyelken, N., Beyazit, E., Kayaoğlu, A., Yıldırım, Ş. N., & Tanyeri, F. N. (2023). Economic vulnerabilities and pandemic mobilities: Mobility of low-income populations in İstanbul during the Covid-19 pandemic. Habitat International, 141, Article 102903. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.habitatint.2023.102903

This paper explores the everyday mobilities of low-income populations during the Covid-19 pandemic through a mixed-methods study in İstanbul. It shows how additional economic burdens brought by the Covid-19 pandemic interplay with low-income resident... Read More about Economic vulnerabilities and pandemic mobilities: Mobility of low-income populations in İstanbul during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Improving women's accessibility to public transport through participatory street experiments: The case of Maltepe, Istanbul (2023)
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Beyazit, E., Waite, I. A., Balik, H., Erturan, A., & Keşan, B. (2023). Improving women's accessibility to public transport through participatory street experiments: The case of Maltepe, Istanbul. Journal of Urban Mobility, 4, Article 100062. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.urbmob.2023.100062

Building on the literature concerning gender-responsive mobility, this paper aims to explore how street experiments can be used to promote gendered mobilities and create streetscapes in order to prioritise the needs of women in the improvement of acc... Read More about Improving women's accessibility to public transport through participatory street experiments: The case of Maltepe, Istanbul.

Exploring the joint impacts of income, car ownership, and built environment on daily activity patterns: A cluster analysis of trip chains (2023)
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Yousefzadeh Barri, E., Farber, S., Jahanshahi, H., Tiznado-Aitken, I., & Beyazit, E. (in press). Exploring the joint impacts of income, car ownership, and built environment on daily activity patterns: A cluster analysis of trip chains. Transportmetrica A: Transport Science, https://doi.org/10.1080/23249935.2023.2236235

Clustering activity patterns and identifying homogeneous travel behaviour through trip chain sequences offer valuable insight for transportation planners and policymakers in addressing transport equity problems and travel demand management. This stud... Read More about Exploring the joint impacts of income, car ownership, and built environment on daily activity patterns: A cluster analysis of trip chains.

Understanding transit ridership in an equity context through a comparison of statistical and machine learning algorithms (2022)
Journal Article
Yousefzadeh Barri, E., Farber, S., Jahanshahi, H., & Beyazit, E. (2022). Understanding transit ridership in an equity context through a comparison of statistical and machine learning algorithms. Journal of Transport Geography, 105, Article 103482. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2022.103482

Building an accurate model of travel behaviour based on individuals’ characteristics and built environment attributes is of importance for policy-making and transportation planning. Recent experiments with big data and Machine Learning (ML) algorithm... Read More about Understanding transit ridership in an equity context through a comparison of statistical and machine learning algorithms.

Can transit investments in low-income neighbourhoods increase transit use? Exploring the nexus of income, car-ownership, and transit accessibility in Toronto (2021)
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Yousefzadeh Barri, E., Farber, S., Kramer, A., Jahanshahi, H., Allen, J., & Beyazit, E. (2021). Can transit investments in low-income neighbourhoods increase transit use? Exploring the nexus of income, car-ownership, and transit accessibility in Toronto. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 95, Article 102849. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2021.102849

Transportation equity advocates recommend improving public transit in low-income neighbourhoods to alleviate socio-spatial inequalities and increase quality of life. However, transportation planners often overlook transit investments in neighbourhood... Read More about Can transit investments in low-income neighbourhoods increase transit use? Exploring the nexus of income, car-ownership, and transit accessibility in Toronto.

Establishing a metropolitan transport authority in Istanbul: A new institutional economics framework for institutional change in urban transport (2019)
Journal Article
Canitez, F., Çelebi, D., & Beyazit, E. (2019). Establishing a metropolitan transport authority in Istanbul: A new institutional economics framework for institutional change in urban transport. Case Studies on Transport Policy, 7(3), 562-573. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cstp.2019.06.002

Rapid urban growth and resulting urban transport problems in developing cities trigger major transformative reform attempts. However, these attempts might fail due to ignoring the role of the institutional environment. Changing the governance structu... Read More about Establishing a metropolitan transport authority in Istanbul: A new institutional economics framework for institutional change in urban transport.

The use of state-of-the-art transport models by policymakers – beauty in simplicity? (2016)
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Givoni, M., Beyazit, E., & Shiftan, Y. (2016). The use of state-of-the-art transport models by policymakers – beauty in simplicity?. Planning Theory and Practice, 17(3), 385-404. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649357.2016.1188975

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 questi... Read More about The use of state-of-the-art transport models by policymakers – beauty in simplicity?.

Are wider economic impacts of transport infrastructures always beneficial? Impacts of the Istanbul Metro on the generation of spatio-economic inequalities (2015)
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Beyazit, E. (2015). Are wider economic impacts of transport infrastructures always beneficial? Impacts of the Istanbul Metro on the generation of spatio-economic inequalities. Journal of Transport Geography, 45, 12-23. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2015.03.009

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. Altho... Read More about Are wider economic impacts of transport infrastructures always beneficial? Impacts of the Istanbul Metro on the generation of spatio-economic inequalities.

Evaluating social justice in transport: Lessons to be learned from the capability approach (2010)
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Beyazit, E. (2011). Evaluating social justice in transport: Lessons to be learned from the capability approach. Transport Reviews, 31(1), 117-134. https://doi.org/10.1080/01441647.2010.504900

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... Read More about Evaluating social justice in transport: Lessons to be learned from the capability approach.