Public Transportation Oriented Istanbul Traffic Planning Project carried out jointly by IETT and TUSSIDE continues at full speed. Within the scope of the project, "Workshop on Socio-Economic Interaction in Transportation" was held on May 4, 2016 at Istanbul Topkapı Eresin Hotel in order to evaluate the effects of current and future transportation policies in Istanbul from the perspective of social science experts.

The workshop, moderated by TÜSSİDE, was attended by academicians, representatives of non-governmental organizations and TÜSSİDE experts. In the first part of the workshop, the current situation on the socio-economic impacts of transportation and the determinants of these impacts was tried to be revealed. In the afternoon part of the workshop, a panel discussion was held on many different dimensions of Istanbul transportation such as health, psychology, economy and urbanism. Speakers in the panel emphasized the increase in comfort and capacity improvement of public transportation. They pointed out that in mega-cities like Istanbul, where traffic is heavy, public transportation can be made more encouraging for people and traffic can be improved by increasing the number of passengers switching from private vehicles to public transportation.