Bachelor 2024/2025

Intermodal Transportation Management

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

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

• Intermediate Test
  A testing list with ten questions is sent to studendts, filled up offline and sent back to be checked Evaluation criteria: the per cent of correct answers forms the mark jn a ten-point scale
• Presentation at the seminar
  Students make individual or group presentations at the seminars
• Final exam
  Examination test list with 30 questions sent to the students, filled up and sent back to be checked

Interim Assessment

• 2024/2025 3rd module
  0.6 * Final exam + 0.2 * Intermediate Test + 0.2 * Presentation at the seminar

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

Authors

• CHERENKOVA ELENA ALEKSANDROVNA
• KOLIK ALEKSANDR VENIAMINOVICH