Ankara Konya YHT Line is 12 Years Old

25/08/2023 06 Ankara, 42 Konya, Central Anatolia Region, RAILWAY, GENERAL, High Speed Trains, HEADLINE, TURKIYE
Ankara Konya YHT Line is Aged
Ankara Konya YHT Line is Aged

While the high-speed and high-speed railway lines, which were started to be built in Ankara with priority railway policies since 2003 in Turkey, were put into operation step by step, the first YHT line, Ankara-Eskişehir high-speed railway line, was opened on March 13, 2009, and the second line, Ankara-Konya, was launched on March 24, 2011. It was put into operation in August XNUMX.

These lines; Ankara-Istanbul on 27 July 2014, Konya-Istanbul on 18 December 2014, Karaman-Istanbul and Karaman-Ankara on 8 January 2022, Eskişehir-Istanbul on 10 September 2022, Ankara-Sivas on 27 April 2023. he did.

As a brand new era started with high-speed railway technology in our country, which has the 8th Europe 6th high-speed railway line in the world, transportation habits began to change and the economic, social and cultural life of the cities began to become dynamic.

With high-speed trains, the average travel time between Ankara and Eskişehir, which is 4-5 hours, by conventional trains, is 1 hour 30 minutes, 14 hours Ankara-Konya 2 hours, 8 -9 hours Ankara-Istanbul 4 hours 30 minutes, 14 hours Konya-Istanbul It decreased to 5 hours, Ankara-Sivas 12 hours and 2 minutes, which was 30 hours.

Within the scope of High Speed ​​​​Train (YHT) operation by the General Directorate of TCDD Transportation; While 11 provinces, namely Ankara, Eskişehir, Konya, Bilecik, Sakarya, Kocaeli, Istanbul, Karaman, Kırıkkale, Yozgat and Sivas, can be reached directly, by YHT+bus or YHT+train connection; Distances were shortened by combined transportation to Bursa, Kütahya, Tavşanlı, Afyonkarahisar, Denizli, Karaman, İzmir, Antalya, Manavgat, Alanya and Adana.

On the other hand, with the opening of the whole of Marmaray, which creates an uninterrupted railway line between Europe and Asia, on 12 March 2019, high-speed trains started to reach the European side and departed from Konya. Halkalıfrom Ankara in 5 hours and 15 minutes HalkalıIt was possible to reach in 5 hours.

While more than 77 million passengers have been transported by high-speed trains to date, approximately 26 million 500 thousand of them are in Ankara-Istanbul, 19 million in Ankara-Konya, 9 million in Konya-Istanbul, 1 million 100 thousand in Ankara-Karaman, 800 thousand in Konya-Istanbul, 374 thousand in Ankara-Turkey. It was moved on the Sivas line.

Thus, the number of passengers carried on the Ankara-Konya line, which was put into operation on August 24, 2011, reached approximately 19 million, and the number of passengers carried on the Ankara and Istanbul axes, based in Konya, reached 30 million.

With the commissioning of YHTs, the share of railway passengers, who could not get a share before, in the Ankara-Konya track exceeded 70 percent, while the share of buses and private vehicles decreased significantly.

Currently, TCDD Transportation General Directorate carries out a total of 68 YHT trips on weekends and 64 on weekdays, while Ankara- Istanbul 30, Ankara- Eskişehir 5, Ankara- Konya 22, Konya- Istanbul 16, Ankara- Karaman 8, Karaman- Istanbul 4, Ankara-Sivas It carries an average of 8 thousand passengers per day with 2 and 37 flights between Eskişehir and Istanbul, this number can reach 40 thousand.