Methodology
In the study, factors affecting the location selection of warehouse and their degree of
importance are determined in the Istanbul metropolitan area. In this study, logistic
regression is used to examine how location-specific factors influence the site preference
of warehouses. For this, with the use of GIS techniques, the development site as “preferred”
and “non-preferred” groups is classified. At the metropolitan level, previous
studies used various factors in the location of warehousing, such as rents for properties,
proximity to market and production locations, highway and airport, port and rail access,
the distance to blue-collar workers and access to the central city (Sivitanidou, 1996;
Woudsma et al., 2008). In this study, factors such as transport accessibility, cluster, distance
to the traditional CBD and customs, rents and market size are examined. All of
them represent the location-specific factors. The factors are defined with some explanatory