INDUSTRIAL DECENTRALIZATION IN ISTANBUL AND ITS IMPACT ON TRANSPORT

The general tendency in a number of metropolitan cities of the world w here metropolitan area problems have been considerably alleviated is t oward making the urban macro form into a multicore structure and decen tralizing industry on regional or national basis. The aim of this stud y was to examine decentralization policies to be implemented in Istanb ul and to consider the impact of the multicore urban model on urban tr ansportation. In the first section of this paper, areas in Istanbul wi th potential for further development are determined using the dynamic Lowry model. In the second section, scenarios regarding the decentrali zation of industry are generated based on the results obtained from th e first. In the third section, the traffic-flow results of the current situation and scenarios over the current transportation system are ob tained. The conclusion reached is that the decentralization of industr y in Istanbul and transforming the city into a linear and multicore st ructure do have positive impacts on various aspects of the urban trans portation system.