Transport in Logistics

Syllabus

1. Characteristics of transport and transport system, its importance in logistics, economics and society, typology of transport. 2. Road transport, forms and technologies, its advantages and disadvantages, perspectives and impacts on the environment, importance in the economy. 3. Railway transport, forms and technologies, its advantages and disadvantages, perspectives and impacts on the environment, importance in the economy, possibilities for further development. 4. Air transport, forms and technologies, its advantages and disadvantages, perspectives and impacts on the environment, importance in the economy, trends. 5. Water transport and water corridors, forms and technologies, its advantages and disadvantages, perspectives and impacts on the environment, importance in the economy, development opportunities. 6. Other forms of transport - pipeline, space transport, perspectives and impacts on the environment, importance in the economy, development opportunities. 7. Combined transport, intermodal and multimodal transport, their possibilities, advantages and disadvantages, perspectives, possible solutions, and impacts on the environment. 8. Intra-company transport, its development and perspectives (automated warehouses, high and low lifting technology, etc.) 9. Business in transport, legislative framework of transport operation. 10. Mass and shared forms of transport (urban, national forms and interstate forms of transport, uber and other forms, taxi services, city bicycle rentals). 11. Electromobility and ecological solutions in passenger - individual transport and in public transport, its barriers, possibilities, opportunities, perspectives. Electromobility and ecological solutions in freight transport, its barriers, possibilities, opportunities, perspectives. 12. State and European efforts and support for reducing the impact of transport on the environment, barriers, recommendations, opportunities. 13. The future of the transport system, new technologies and challenges.