Özet:

Logistics has undergone numerous changes over the years, from the primary agricultural economy to the modern industry. The reason for this change is the need for the diversification, development of products and needs for the development of logistics capacity, logistics service and process. Societies without sufficient logistics capacity and without sufficient logistics services cannot fully use production factors and cannot be integrated into external trade. Railway cargo transportation also has a lot of advantages at this point, with low cost at first. Thanks to these advantages of its railways, it has long remained an important part of logistics services. Railways are a very preferred transportation option especially in foreign trade activities. Therefore, the railway activities have an important place in the logistics performance of the countries. In this study, the countries were also divided into groups with data from the 2016-2020 Statistical Year published by the General Directorate of the State Railway Business of the Republic of Turkey (TCDD) in terms of international railway statistics. In the analysis done with the WEKA program, the ideal results were given by the Expectation Maximization algorithm. According to the algorithm, the countries are divided into four groups. Countries have also been analyzed by classification by the PSI method of multi-critical decision-making methods. The landscape has been examined with the landscape. With regard to the collections and rankings that the countries belong to, mostly close results have been obtained. Three of the first five countries with the best performance in the PSI method were included in the same set. In this case, while testing the reliability of the results of two different analyses, it was asked to give a different perspective to literature. As a result, the cumulative analysis results and the results of the PSI method have been shown to be quite close to each other and to support each other.