Bachelor
2023/2024
Intermodal Transportation Management
Category 'Best Course for New Knowledge and Skills'
Type:
Elective course (Supply Chain Management and Business Analytics)
Area of studies:
Management
Delivered by:
Department of Operations Management and Logistics
Where:
Graduate School of Business
When:
4 year, 3 module
Mode of studies:
offline
Open to:
students of one campus
Instructors:
Alexander Kolik
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
3
Contact hours:
30
Course Syllabus
Abstract
The course is aimed at learning of the role of intermodal transportation in modern logistics and supply chains and the principles of intermodal transportation management. The course provides additional knowledge on modern transport systems and encourages the improvement of professional discussion in English skills
Learning Objectives
- Getting the basic knowledge on intermodal transportation management principles and technologies
Expected Learning Outcomes
- • Knowledge of factors that had determined the creation and development of the Intermodal concept
- Knowledge of of principal ideas of intermodal transportation and the basic models of intermodal transport services
- Understanding the role and principles of infrastructure development in intermodal transport system
- Understanding the role of different transport modes in modern intermodal systems
Course Contents
- Intermodal concept prerequisites
- Principal Models and Basic Ideas
- Global container system
- Infrastructure of Intermodal Transport System
- Transport Modes and Intermodalism
Assessment Elements
- PresentationThe student makes the presentation covering the chosen topic
- Intermediary TestingThe student answers the questons in the testing list
- ExamThe student answers the questions of the examination test and send the answers to the teacher's e-mail
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- A handbook of transport economics, , 2011
- Air transport, , 2002
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- An introduction to sustainable transportation : policy, planning and implementation, Schiller, P. L., 2018
- Carriage of goods by sea, land and air : unimodal and multimodal transport in the 21st century, , 2014
- Concepts of transportation economics, Prentice, B. E., 2016