Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
REGIONAL STATISTICS, cilt.10, sa.2, ss.117-141, 2020 (ESCI)
The fast-growing, capital-intensive, and fragile structure of air transport makes the aviation sector crucial for national economic growth and regional development. Over a century old, Turkey's aviation sector has undergone a remarkable transition from a state-regulated market to a liberal, competitive one. This fundamental change has created an urgent need to quantitatively outline the historical and contextual framework of Turkey's air transport network in order to grasp its structural dynamics and thus obtain insights into the drivers of regional and air transport development. This paper uses time-series analysis to outline the historical framework of the aviation sector in Turkey based on air traffic and spatiotemporal data at the national and regional levels. The aim is to detect outlier changes in the historical air transport timeframe at both the national and regional levels and to define discrete periods in the history of Turkey's aviation sector. The results, discussed through the prism of transport policy and regional economies, provide structural insights into the dynamics of the Turkish aviation market. The findings reveal that the periods derived from the time-series analyses are consistent with the major changes discussed in the literature.