LGMT 636 Online Syllabus 0311 1

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Transportation financial matters, the investigation of the portion of transportation assets keeping in mind the end goal to address the issues of a general public. In a macroeconomic sense, transportation exercises shape a part of a country's aggregate financial item and assume a part in building or reinforcing a national or local economy and as an impact in the advancement of area and different assets. In a microeconomic sense, transportation includes relations in the middle of firms and individual buyers. The interest for and supply of transportation for both travelers and cargo, transportation evaluating, and the reasons why the transportation framework is both managed and deregulated are among its worries. Reference acquired from :http://www.britannica.com/topic/transportation-economics)

Speaking- Students will present their projects to the class and participate in a book club based on books from the text set.

Students will be able to engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions, on grade-level topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing

The intent of this analysis is to compare and contrast the cost structures for rail, motor carriers and air modes of transportation. Implicit in this analysis is the rapid adoption of intermodal transportation which is often optimized to specific logistics and supply chain objectives (Jennings, Holcomb, 1996).

Information about competitive transportation services will be gathered. Questionnaires will be distributed to students and faculty of Kent State University in order to gather customer insight. Also, a financial consulting firm will be hired to provide professional assistance.

Transportation is one of the largest industries in the world. It is the most costly and time consuming of the supply chain. Transportation refers to the movement of products and raw materials from one destination to another. This process begins from the supply chain to the shipping of the finished product to the consumer. For we know that products are rarely produced in the same location. We as people depend on transportation because it moves goods and people from one place to another.

The transport industry has been around for decades now and as the technology changes and globalization intensifies, the pressure and demand on the transport industry keeps building as well as the competition therein. This calls for a revolution in the way the transport industry carries out their services particularly at the end of the chain which often is at the doorstep of the client. This paper will identify the key value additions that can be implemented at the end of the chain. It will also show the new ways of handling goods in a more efficient and affordable manner that will leave the receiver of the goods much more satisfied with the service than the contemporary approach. It will also identify and highlight the specific concerns or areas of concern by the receiver of goods that would make them more satisfied with the transport services offered since currently more attention is skewed towards satisfying the sender who pays for the service.

The interdisciplinary and challenging program of Transportation engineering at Texas A&M University will supplement my aim of exhaustive education. If given a chance, I would like to work under the expertise of Dr. Luca Quadrifoglio whose work in this field has been very inspiring. His projects especially on “Innovative Strategy for Paratransit Services” substantiate the role of paratransits and provide an approach to fathom the impending first/last mile problem.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Centre for Transportation and Logistics argues that in recent times, precious few innovations in

Truck transportation has been the backbone of freight movements in the United States and across the globe for decades. While utilizing trucks is an economical way to move freight for short hauls of less than a 1,000 miles, there are high environmental and infrastructure costs for utilizing this mode of transportation. According to Lowe, road transportation’s use of energy resources rose 103 per cent in the period since 1970 (2005). Additionally, Lowe points out that road transportation’s emission of green house gasses, “increased by 76% between 1971 and 1989” (Lowe, 2005, p. 112). Furthermore, road transportation is the largest polluter in the industry. It utilizes “over 80% of the total energy used in the transport sector and contributes over 75% of its total CO2 output (Lowe, 2005, p. 113). Finally, freight transportation by heavy vehicles causes pavement damage at significantly higher rates than passenger traffic (SSTI, 2011).

As mentioned in the introduction, transport is theorized to raise industrial productivity. Determining the causal mechanism for these productivity gains is difficult, and measuring them accurately and efficiently is even more difficult due to statistical hurdles and data availability. The three most common approaches to estimating industrial effects of transportation are microeconomic and macroeconomic approaches and a historical or wider benefits approach (Lakshmanan, 2011).

The major use of a transportation system is to manage movement of individuals, vehicles as well as goods so as to make good use of routes competently. When put into practice, transportation systems try to ease transport costs as well as