Mine Isik

• Doctor of Philosophy
• European Bank For Reconstruction And Development

Electricity is the rising force among worldwide end-uses of energy. To meet the increasing demand, accurate policy decisions should be made considering each country’s own dynamics. In fact, the selection of appropriate electricity generation resources necessitates the consideration of different aspects of the problem; hence, multi-attribute evaluat...

Need for energy is constantly increasing as globalization spreads, and is becoming a very important input for economic development. As energy resources are scarce, safe and sustainable supply of energy, efficient use, reduction of greenhouse gasses and environmental protection, price changes and instabilities in fuel prices, transformation from usa...

Meeting increased energy demand exacerbated by resource scarcity and climate change presents a significant challenge to many cities around the world. New York City (NYC) having one of the oldest infrastructure in the U.S. will require expansion and upgrades over the coming decades. For example, NYC Housing Authority is responsible for the public he...

Overview Across the globe, urban planners and city agencies are developing strategies to shape their environmental futures. Strategies to protect cities include targeted emission reductions of pollutants that contribute indirectly to extreme weather events and sea level rise. While urban entities contribute to the collective global action around th...

Emission mitigation actions are being undertaken at the global level to combat climate change and address potential climate risks. The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is a major source of finance to catalyze the transformation toward a low emission future in developing countries. While the importance of the GCF is widely acknowledged, quantitative evaluat...

Recently, countries are trying to improve their economies while increasing the number of positive steps they are taking against climate change and minimizing greenhouse carbon emission. However, this effort is futile unless these countries turn their attention to renewable energy sources. The shift from conventional energy to renewable energy will...

Kapıkule border crossing, connecting Turkey to Bulgaria, is one of the largest customs gates at Europe via road transportation. Although it has a high capacity and large land area, there occurs long delays in the custom services due to inefficient operations resulting with long queues of trucks and long service times. To overcome this problem, in t...

Decarbonization of the energy system is urgent to avert the disruptions in the climate. Considering its share, the low carbon transition of the power sector is pivotal. Growing electricity demand poses unique challenges for Turkey to enact deep decarbonization. It is vital to uncover the contributing causes of emissions to provide strategic oversig...

Like many cities around the world, New York City is establishing policies to reduce CO2 emissions from all energy sectors by 2050. Understanding the impact of varying degrees of electric vehicle adoption and CO2 intensities on emissions reduction in the city is critical. Here, using a technology-rich, bottom-up, energy system optimization model, we...

A thorough understanding of the drivers that affect the emission levels from electricity generation, support sound design and the implementation of further emission reduction goals are presented here. For instance, New York State has already committed a transition to 100% clean energy by 2040. This paper identifies the relationships among driving f...

The transportation sector is one of the main contributors to global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. As the efforts towards emission mitigation increase, the expectation from the sector arises equally. In this analysis, the transportation sector of Turkey is studied to shed light on the future based on historical realizations. In this respect, the L...

It represents the COMET model which was developed to address long term planning questions related to sustainability, resilience, equity and growth for cities.

EPA/ORD developed City-based Optimization Model for Energy Technologies (COMET) which is designed to examine energy consumption and management scenarios under various environmental policy scenarios implemented at city- and state-level. Initial application of the COMET is piloted in NNew York City. This report provides an overview of the COMET, data...

Unlike in the past, the emerging trend is to provide online services due to the developments over the course of years. Online presence becomes the most significant factor of competitiveness. At this peak, firms try to infer the dynamics that increase customers' acceptance of these services. The present study aims to identify the complex relationshi...

Unlike in the past, the emerging trend is to provide online services due to the developments over the course of years. Online presence becomes the most significant factor of competitiveness. At this peak, firms try to infer the dynamics that increase customers' acceptance of these services. The present study aims to identify the complex relationshi...

Overview As emissions reductions are desired in end-use sectors-commercial/residential technologies and light-and heavy-duty vehicles-the corresponding changes in fuel use and technologies can lead to shifts in the upstream production processes. These "upstream" emissions can be associated with changes in fuel production, transport and distribution...

Due to product variety and modeling structure, the automotive manufacturing process requires state-of-the art production methods that cause a high complexity level in operations which assembly operators work in a mixed-assembly environment. To maintain a competitive advantage, companies should take a different approach that considers the methodolog...

Over the past decade, medical tourism has been one of the fastest growing sectors in developing countries. In this context, the attempt to monitor the performance of top medical tourism destinations has become a major concern. In spite of the fact that medical tourism has a significantly direct impact on not only GDP but also foreign exchange gener...

n this study, logistics process improvement of Kapikule Border Crossing, one of the largest customs gates, has been evaluated. It is obvious that, any decrease in trade time is expected to realize positive impact on the logistics competitiveness of a specific country. In order to reduce time across all dimensions of the border process, the improvem...

Purpose The principal aim of this study is to investigate the interactions among enterprise resource planning (ERP) practices, supply chain orientation (SCO), and operational performance (OPER) by forming a macro perspective based on a scientific foundation powered by a Resource-Based View (RBV). Design/methodology/approach Exploratory and confi...

Bu çalışmada Türkiye’nin Enerji Sistemi’nin üretim, iletim ve tüketim süreçleri teknolojiler bazında oldukça ayrıntılı olarak modellenmesi gerçekleştirilmiştir. Referans senaryosunun yanı sıra, çeşitli karbon vergisi senaryoları altında kalibre edilen model ile Türkiye’nin hem kısa, hem de uzun vadeli enerji-çevre planlama ve politikalarının oluşum...

Overview In today’s dynamically changing and energy-sensitive environment, it is essential to build comprehensive energy models and analyze system dynamics under alternative scenarios. Reducing CO2 emissions, developing alternative energy sources, increasing energy efficiency, decreasing import dependence while striving to maintain stable energy pr...

In this study, generation, transmission, and consumption stages are modeled with an in-depth technological detail. In addition to the reference scenario, the model is calibrated under carbon tax scenarios to obtain results that can provide insights for long and short term energy and environment planning and policy generation. According to the refer...

This study offers a model which is able not only to measure the success of sponsorship but also fill the gap of a guide for the decision makers who are about to make sponsorship agreement. It investigates the jersey sponsors of football, men’s basketball, and women’s basketball of three major sports clubs in Turkey. Two separate surveys were conduc...

The constant increase in the importance and popularity of sports has created an industry of a scale of billion dollars. Lately, sports clubs have extended their views by opening sports schools, facilities, stadiums, merchandise stores and even restaurants in addition to their core activities in the area. This expansion makes for the need of a profe...

One of the widely accepted reports reveals that greenhouse gases contributed a global mean surface warming likely to be between 0.5 °C and 1.3 °C over the period between 1951 and 2010. It goes on to state, that it is inevitable that continued greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions at current rates will result in greater warming and damage on the climate sy...

Sustainability has gained tremendous importance and has been an important issue both for policy makers and practitioners. Realizing that the resources on the earth are limited, renewable energy alternatives have flourished and started to replace the conventional energy alternatives. Energy planning using different energy alternatives, for the long...

Since the suppliers have become an important determinant of a company's success, the selection and evaluation of suppliers plays a vital role in the performance of a company. Although the problem has been formulated extensively as a multi criteria decision making method in the literature, in this study we aim to use fuzzy clustering methodology to...

Since the suppliers have become an important determinant of a company's success, the selection and evaluation of suppliers plays a vital role in the performance of a company. Although the problem has been formulated extensively as a multi criteria decision making method in the literature, in this study we aim to use fuzzy clustering methodology to...

Sustainability has gained tremendous importance and has been an important issue both for policy makers and practitioners. Realizing that the resources on the earth are limited, renewable energy alternatives have flourished and started to replace the conventional energy alternatives. Energy planning using different energy alternatives, for the long...

In this study we undertook the credit card fraud detection problem of a bank and tried to improve the performance of an existing solution. In doing so, we did not undertake the typical objective of maximizing the number of correctly classified transactions but rather we defined a new objective function where the misclassification costs are variable...

The general purpose of this research is to put forth a multi-criteria decision analysis approach which is used to measure the effectiveness of sports sponsorship agreements. The proposed model is able to measure not only the effectiveness of sponsorship but also fill the gap of a guide for the decision makers who are about to make that kind of inve...