TÜRKİYE'DEKİ HAVALİMANLARININ PERFORMANSLARININ KÜMELEME VE TOPSIS YÖNTEMLERİYLE DEĞERLENDİRİLMESİ.

Airports in Turkey as well as in the world has a strategic importance in many respects. It is also important to evaluate the performance of these airports, which have strategic importance. The aim of this study was to evaluate the operating performance of the airports in Turkey with clustering and TOPSIS method using basic airport indicators. As basic indicators,, the criteria of the number of domestic and international aircraft, the number of domestic and international passengers, the number of domestic and international commercial aircraft and the amount of domestic and international cargo (tons) were used. In the study, using these criteria, airports are divided into nine clusters by hierarchical clustering method. Then, by taking expert opinion, criteria weights were determned and the performances of the obtained clusters were evaluated by TOPSIS method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]