Abstract:

The Silk Road has been one of the most important routes for trade between many civilizations throughout history. The Silk Road, which lost its importance as a result of the discovery of new trade routes after geographical discoveries, was revived as the Iron Silk Road by the route countries and opened to transportation as the Trans-Caspian International Transport Corridor. Particularly with the construction of the Marmaray tube passage, cargo coming from China goes to Europe using this passage, Turkey being an important transit country between Europe and the Far East, especially due to its geopolitical position, and the intense use of Kars and Kapıkule border gates, making our country an important one. has become a center of attraction. Considering the important factors in the selection of the establishment location, it is of great importance that the location to be chosen is in a location that provides easy access to other transportation modes, especially for the effective and efficient performance of both storage, maintenance and other logistics processes. In this study, a network consisting of 27 branches and 31 nodes was created by selecting the points where the railway network in Turkey intersects with the highway junctions between Kapıkule and Kars. Six criteria affecting location and route selection were determined, the weights of the criteria were determined with the Pythagorean fuzzy analytical hierarchical process, and the alternatives were ranked according to their importance with the COPRAS method. The found values were coded and solved in Python programming language using the Dijkstra Algorithm. In the line section between Kapıkule and Kars, the most suitable location and route selection was made at the points where the railway route intersects with the highway junctions.