Data Sets
Turkish Network
The Turkish network.xls file contains the data on the 81 node Turkish network. The file includes different sheets presenting travel distances, travel times, flow, fixed link costs between 81 cities in Turkey and fixed hub costs for these cities. The distance, time and fixed hub costs are taken from Tan and Kara (2007). Flow data is calculated by the method presented in Çetiner, Sepil and Süral (2007), and the fixed link costs are taken from Alumur, Kara and Karaşan (2009).
The Republic of Turkey General Directorate of Highways declared an updated version of the Turkish network.xls with the inclusion of new highways. Thus, we updated the distance in kilometers and minutes matrices as of July 1st 2011. The travel times are calculated by dividing the distances to 90 (as the law states).
Supply and Demand Values of Organs for the Cities in Turkey in 2011
Organ Transplantation Data set represents the potential number of donated organs (for kidney, liver and heart) at each city (81 cities) and approximate number of waiting patients (for kidney, liver and heart) at the cities with transplantation centers (20 cities) in Turkey. To derive these values, we benefited our interviews by Dr. Eyup Kahveci from International Medicana Hospital in Ankara. The details are given in Pelin Cay’s master thesis June 2012.