Binding: Paperback
Description: Transportation Operations Management provides the analytical tools and industry - wide context necessary to understand and address the critical real - world problems in transportation operations and planning that shippers carriers and third - party logistics providers face every day. The book examines operational problems from all transportation modes air motor carrier water vessel pipeline and rail to show how these interact in the real world of today's carriers and shippers. The book also outlines and analyzes key issues such as designing efficient domestic and international transportation networks; choosing optimal locations within market spaces; designing infrastructure to manage network congestion; leveraging intermodalism for operational flexibility; leveraging techniques for costing pricing and revenue management; using tracking technology for decisionmaking; maintaining regulatory compliance in operations; and managing environmental stewardship. Paying particular attention to the influence of the logistical constraints of time physical space and location the book reveals the key role of transportation in strategic and tactical decision - making. The book uses mathematical techniques such as the theory of capacity management the microeconomics of costing and pricing risk management linear optimization productivity measurement queueing theory and complex scheduling. The book also uses real - world problems with their actual marketplace constraints in technology geography and government regulations to provide an applied context to the techniques examined.
Title: Transportation Operations Management
Author(s): Prokop Darren J. (Professor Of Logistics In The College Of Business And Public Policy At The University Of Alaska Anchorage Ak Usa)
Publisher: Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Barcode: 9780128154151
Pages: 240 Pages
Publication Date: 3/14/2022
Category: Transport Law