The project titled “Investigation of the Realized and Expected Effects of Adaptations to Remote Working After the Covid-19 Pandemic, on Travel Behaviors and Housing Location: Istanbul-Kocaeli-Tekirdağ Urban Region Example” in which Prof.Dr. Lütfi Sunar from IMU Sociology Department will be working as a researcher, received support within the scope of TÜBİTAK 1001 Projects. The project will be coordinated by Muhammed Ziya Paköz from the Gebze Technical University Faculty of Architecture, Department of City and Regional Planning.
The project aims to examine the realized and expected effects of ‘remote work’, which has become widespread all over the world and in Turkey after the Covid-19 pandemic, on transportation behaviors and housing location selection in the Istanbul-Kocaeli-Tekirdağ city-region through the preferences of employees and households. The study will analyze remote work in a multidimensional way through the new socio-spatial structure that is being formed in the post-Covid-19 pandemic period. In addition, it will be an original and scientific study with high scientific contribution since the research will be carried out in a city-region that hosts 22% of Turkey’s population and is the locomotive of the Turkish economy.
It is aimed that the findings to be obtained through the project will guide sectoral policies in the development plan andthe companies in their practices to improve employee performance, and form a base for local and central governments’ sustainable urbanization, housing production and public transportation policies at the neighborhood / district and metropolitan area level.
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