Intermodal Transportation Management

2023/2024

Academic Year

ENG

Instruction in English

3

ECTS credits

Delivered at:

Department of Operations Management and Logistics

Course type:

Elective course

When:

4 year, 3 module

Instructor

Kolik, Alexander

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

• Presentation
  The student makes the presentation covering the chosen topic
• Intermediary Testing
  The student answers the questons in the testing list
• Exam
  The student answers the questions of the examination test and send the answers to the teacher's e-mail

Interim Assessment

• 2023/2024 3rd module
  0.6 * Exam + 0.2 * Intermediary Testing + 0.2 * Presentation

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