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

Table 5. General statistics about HSR cities

Population HSR
Emp. Satisfaction w/ Life Human Passenger
Chan- Rate transportation Index Dev. Arrivals
2016 2023 ge (2013)* service(2013)* Ranking Index (2016)***
Rate % % (2015)* (2013) x10 3
**
Current HSR Cities

Ankara 5,325 5,927 16 45 71 17 2 2,354
Eskişe- 835 908 13 43 73 15 10 1,375
hir
Bilecik 211 223 8 48 86 13 48 61
Sakarya 949 1,026 12 50 89 2 20 46
Kocaeli 1,765 1,984 18 49 73 23 6 172

İstanbul 14,864 16,569 16 46 69 5 1 779

Konya 2,104 2,175 5 46 88 18 8 1,104

Upcoming HSR Cities

Bursa 2,839 3,073 12 48 83 19 5 ---
Sivas 612 582 -6 45 82 40 36 ---
Afyon 708 707 0 51 94 10 42 ---
Manisa 1,362 1,371 2 53 91 31 21 ---
Uşak 348 353 3 51 94 6 39 ---
İzmir 4,138 4,405 9 47 77 21 3 ---

*The data were compiled from TurkStat (2016)
**The source of the data is The Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey-TEPAV (2016).
*** The data source is Turkish State Railways (2017).

Life index rating which shows the overall rating for the cities considering residents, employment,
income, health, education, environment, security, accessibility to infrastructure was obtained
for current and upcoming cities (TurkStat, 2016). Among 81 Turkish cities, Sakarya was ranked
as 2 city and İstanbul was ranked as 5 city. The other index was Human Development Index
th
nd
which evaluates development in terms of health, education and income was also given in Table
According to 2013 data, İstanbul and Ankara became the first two cities in terms of human
development. Among the upcoming HSR cities, İzmir became the 3 city followed by Bursa as
rd
th
5 city.

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