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Dalkic, Gulcin. Tuydes-Yaman, Hediye. Delaplace, Marie.

Table 4 . Service attributes of HSR and alternative modes

Road Weekly Service Average Travel Time
Frequency
Distance Ticket Fare ($)* (minutes)**
(km) (One-way Trips)

HSR Lines (in operation) HSR Bus Air HSR Bus Air HSR Bus Air
8.3 68.6 222 288
ANK-KON 262 42 442 30 8.7 115
(0.3) (9.2) (22) (82)
7.5 95 191
ANK-ESK 235 77 511 --- 8.7 --- ---
(0.8) (2) (20)
17.1 44.8 249 386 72
ANK-IST 450 42 854 350 20.3
(3.4) (21.4) (5) (30) (9)
12.5 304
KON-ESK 340 14 84 --- 11.2 --- 100 ---
(0.7) (9)
9.8 152 331
ESK-IST 310 56 359 --- 13.1 --- ---
(1.7) (4) (23)
20.7 37.6 620 82
KON-IST 712 14 259 64 24.7 260
(1.4) (13.1) (48) (7)

HSR Lines (under construction)
13.9 300
ANK-BUR 387 --- 492 5 --- 28.5 135 50
(2.2) (19)
12.9 394
ANK-SIV 440 --- 279 --- --- --- 120 ---
(1.1) (20)
17.7 62.4 501 209
ANK-IZM 585 --- 358 237 --- 210
(3.3) (27.1) (24) (109)

(*)Ticket costs are converted to US Dollars with a rate of 3.44TL/$ for October, 2016. (**)Travel time values were
rounded up to the whole numbers.

While bus transportation is an available alternative for all corridors, its service frequency varies
greatly among the corridors: on ANK-IST corridor which connects the two most populated cities
in Turkey, İstanbul (14.4 million) and Ankara (5.1 million), there are 854 services a week. It is
followed by ANK-ESK corridor (511 services a week), which is mostly a sub-network of the ANK-IST
corridor. Air transportation is available for three HSR corridors (as ANK-KON, ANK-IST and KON-IST)
and there is no air alternative for travellers in Eskişehir due to the proximity of the city to the
other major HSR cities (Ankara, Konya, and İstanbul). Both the legacy and low-cost airline services
in ANK-KON corridor include a must-transfer in İstanbul airport which increases cost and travel
time significantly ($68.6 and 288 min., respectively) and this makes unattractive air alternative
on this corridor. However, there are direct air services for ANK-IST and KON-IST corridors.
Note: While calculating the average travel time and cost values one week service information
was gathered (28.11.2016-04.12.2016) and the arithmetic average was taken. For HSR ticket cost,
economy class adult ticket; for intercity bus standard ticket (constant price for one-seat) was
taken. Additionally, standard deviation values were given in the parenthesis.

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