Managing Transport Operations

Author : Edmund J. Gubbins
Publisher : Kogan Page Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780749439286
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Managing Transport Operations written by Edmund J. Gubbins and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transport managers perform an essential and rewarding function in society, controlling the infrastructure that allows people and goods to move around conveniently and swiftly. In clear jargon-free language, this book explains the exceptionally wide range of skills demanded of transport managers, who must understand the economic, social, political and technical aspects of road, rail, air and sea transport, while, crucially, ensuring that levels of safety and reliability are not compromised. This new edition has been fully revised and updated to take account of recent major developments that have taken place in the world of transport, including the function of the Strategic Rail Authority, the Transport Act 2000 and the restructuring of the Department of Transport, Local Government and the Regions. Tailored to meet the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport syllabuses for Transport Management, this book is a 'must-have' resource for students and an essential companion for transport managers. Book jacket.

Author : Darren J. Prokop
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0128156406
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transportation Operations Management written by Darren J. Prokop and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2022-03-09 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transportation Operations Management provides the analytical tools and industry-wide context necessary to understand and address the critical real-world problems in transportation operations and planning that shippers, carriers, and third-party logistics providers face every day.The book examines operational problems from all transportation modes—air, motor carrier, water vessel, pipeline, and rail—to show how these interact in the real world of today’s carriers and shippers. The book also outlines and analyzes key issues such as designing efficient domestic and international transportation networks; choosing optimal locations within market spaces; designing infrastructure to manage network congestion; leveraging intermodalism for operational flexibility; leveraging techniques for costing, pricing, and revenue management; using tracking technology for decisionmaking; maintaining regulatory compliance in operations; and managing environmental stewardship.Paying particular attention to the influence of the logistical constraints of time, physical space, and location, the book reveals the key role of transportation in strategic and tactical decision-making. The book uses mathematical techniques such as the theory of capacity management, the microeconomics of costing and pricing, risk management, linear optimization, productivity measurement, queueing theory, and complex scheduling. The book also uses real-world problems with their actual marketplace constraints in technology, geography, and government regulations to provide an applied context to the techniques examined. Applies the latest analytical techniques to address real-world situations domestically and internationally, from industry and government, demonstrating the interplay between business and government, and planning vs day-to-day operations Includes case studies that demonstrate the opportunities and constraints regarding how workable solutions to an operations management problem can be structured Includes learning aids such as chapter objectives, in-depth discussion of techniques, and keypoints made in prose, mathematically, and diagrammatically

Author : Tony Francis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780749497019
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Road Passenger Transport Management written by Tony Francis and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete guide to road passenger transport management, featuring contributions from experts in the field and management tools for passenger road transport operators.

Author : Peter White
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0415257719
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Public Transport written by Peter White and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2002 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter White reviews current practices in urban, rural and long-distance travel by road, rail and air. The review covers the legal and organisational structure in Britain but is also applicable to many other countries.

Author : Reza Farahani
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0123852021
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Logistics Operations and Management written by Reza Farahani and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2011-05-25 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive overview of how to strategically manage the movement and storage of products or materials from any point in the manufacturing process to customer fulfillment. Topics covered include important tools for strategic decision making, transport, packaging, warehousing, retailing, customer services and future trends. An introduction to logistics Provides practical applications Discusses trends and new strategies in major parts of the logistic industry

Author : Gang Yu
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9812561706
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disruption Management written by Gang Yu and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2004 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering book addresses the latest research findings and application results on disruption management, which is the study of how to dynamically recover a predetermined operational plan when various disruptions prevent the original plan from being executed smoothly.

Author : Lucy Budd
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317183282
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Air Transport Management written by Lucy Budd and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Commercial air transport is a global multimillion dollar industry that underpins the world economy and facilitates the movement of over 3 billion passengers and 50 million tonnes of air freight worldwide each year. With a clearly structured topic-based approach, this textbook presents readers with the key issues in air transport management, including: aviation law and regulation, economics, finance, airport and airline management, environmental considerations, human resource management and marketing. The book comprises carefully selected contributions from leading aviation scholars and industry professionals worldwide. To help students in their studies the book includes case studies, examples, learning objectives, keyword definitions and ‘stop and think’ boxes to prompt reflection and to aid understanding. Air Transport Management provides in-depth instruction for undergraduate and postgraduate students studying aviation and business management-related degrees. It also offers support to industry practitioners seeking to expand their knowledge base.

Author : Tolga Bektas
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1482258749
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freight Transport and Distribution written by Tolga Bektas and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-06-19 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book serves as a primer on freight transportation and logistics, providing a general and broad coverage of concepts, mathematical models and methodologies available for freight transportation planning at strategic, tactical and operational levels. It is aimed at graduate students, and is also a reference book for practitioners in the field. The book includes preliminaries, such as mathematical modeling and optimisation algorithms. The book also features case studies and practical real-life examples to illustrate applications of the concepts and models covered, and to encourage a hands-on and a practical approach. The author has taught and published extensively in the field and draw on state-of-the-art scientific research. He has also been part of a number of practical research projects, which underpin the real life examples in the book.

Author : Y.H. Venus Lun
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1447129210
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oil Transport Management written by Y.H. Venus Lun and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-07-25 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume in a new Springer Series on Shipping and Transport Logistics, Oil Transport Management provides a full historical account of the evolution of the oil transport industry since the 1800's. In this comprehensive guide, the authors investigate the industry and describe the shipping market and its structure, as well as forecasting, location plan and the transportation chain. They dedicate a separate chapter to each topic to cover various concepts, including: an introduction to the tanker shipping market, including how the freight, new vessel building, second hand and demolition markets influence one another, the economic structure and organization of the tanker industry in both the past and present, and forecasting the need for oil-based sea transportation. Further chapters present case studies and simulations to illustrate the importance of factory location decisions and the need for oil infrastructure investments. Chapter One also includes a regression equation to predict the fleet size in tanker shipping. Oil Transport Management is a key reference, which can be practically applied to wider global research and practices. Ideal for both industry practitioners, and researchers and students of shipping studies, Oil Transport Management provides a concise yet comprehensive coverage of the oil transport industry's history and a guide for its future development.

Author : Ulla Tapaninen
Publisher : Kogan Page Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1789662486
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maritime Transport written by Ulla Tapaninen and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2020-05-03 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maritime transport is the transport of people or goods by water. It is the backbone of world trade and globalization. Twenty-four hours a day and all year round, ships carry cargoes to all corners of the globe. Maritime Transport focuses on the operational side of this important industry, covering many topics such as sea traffic currents, passenger transport, short sea shipping and dangerous cargoes. Parts one and two of Maritime Transport present the concepts, theory and background information, then part three presents more complex and deeper issues such as the maritime transportation of the future. It covers topics such as intelligent shipping, data exchange at sea and maritime security. In addition, the book includes fascinating case studies and examples, such as maritime transport in the Baltic sea, ship strategies in Norway and Greece and the benefits of slow steaming. At the end of each chapter there are questions that will help students to gain a deeper understanding of the many topics covered.