12 Annual Transportation Investment 172 Billion

12-Year Transportation Investment 172 Billion: Transport, Maritime and Communication Minister Lütfi Elvan stated that they have achieved very important developments in the transportation and communication sectors in the last 12 years, and said, “The amount of investment we have made in the transportation sector in the last 12 years has reached 172 billion pounds.”
According to the information received by the correspondent of the Electronic News Agency (e-ha), Elvan was organized by the General Directorate of Highways and the Turkish National Committee under the auspices of the Ministry of Transport, Maritime Affairs and Communications, and the Intelligent Transportation Systems (AUS) was discussed with all details. He participated in "Highway Smart Transportation Systems Congress and Exhibition".
The main purpose of science and adapting the innovations in technology to the transportation industry, discussing AUS practice, sharing of information and experience in this field and Elva Speaking at the congress determined as the introduction to the public, in particular, pointed to the importance of the congress to the development of the AUS in Turkey.
Minister Elven, the panels will be organized during the congress of the studies on this subject in the world, Turkey's monitoring of giving the required path to discussed the talk will information, the Ministry of work to be done and said that the Government would give direction to create that strategy and policy.
Participants gave information about the developments in the last 12 years, Turkey Elvan, said:
"Education, health, social security, to transport until it reaches virtually every area of ​​firsts Turkey. In this process, we also achieved very important developments in the transportation and communication sectors. In the last 12 years, the amount of investment we have made only in the field of transportation has reached 172 billion pounds, which is an important amount. When we look back 12 years ago, we see that road standards are very low, we do not have a road infrastructure at international standards, we only have 6 thousand 100 kilometers of roads, and we have a bad transportation infrastructure. When we look at the accident rates, the accident rate per 100 million vehicles / kilometer was 5,17 percent, which is a very high rate, today we have reduced this rate to about 2,6. This is also below the average EU standards. ”
Minister Elvan also gave information about the works carried out in the transportation sector and stated that there are very important developments not only on highways but also on airlines, sea routes and railways.
In the evaluations of the divided highway Elvan Turkey comes to the point that "In particular we achieved significant savings in terms of labor and fuel. According to the work of our friends, the annual savings we make as a result of the divided roads reach 15 billion lira in terms of fuel and labor. In emission emissions, we see that emission emissions of 3 million tons less annually are realized ”.
Lütfi Elvan emphasized that a certain quality was caught on the roads, roads became safer and the number of traffic and vehicles increased in parallel with each other, especially in metropolises.
Pointing out that the researches on this subject show how much time a person living in Istanbul spends in traffic, Elvan stated that AUS is very important in this sense and must be applied.
Stating that AUS saves time and workforce, increases efficiency and enables citizens to move more comfortably and comfortably, Alvan said, “In countries where Ki AUS is very common, a belt towards comfortable public transportation is used by citizens by using these systems. we see that. The development of AUS is important in this sense. ”
Minister Elven, during the 1990s in Turkey with AUSA tried to put into slow application in the world but circling the invention could gold in the 2000s, "Lately, our General Directorate and our Ministry and Highways, improving austin, significant efforts to manifest a road map they realized. Hopefully, we will put the Action Plan put into effect, we will realize the issues in the plan one by one, but AUS is not only an issue that will result in our work, but the parties are quite a lot. ”
Expressing that it is possible to establish an unity in which all stakeholders will be gathered in AUS, thus, it will be possible to implement the systems to be implemented and the strategies to be determined with a common understanding. It touched.
After the opening speech, Minister Elvan visited the stands in the foyer and received information from the authorities.