...Innovative Urban Transport Concepts 1 Co pt C cepts Concepts NICHES is a Coordination Action funded by the European Commission under the Sixth Framework Programme for R&D, Priority 6.2 Sustainable Surface Transport Index Learn from Innovative Experiences with NICHES New Seamless Mobility Services Urban Lift-sharing Services Public Bicycles ..................................................................... 3 4 4 6 8 10 10 12 14 16 16 18 20 22 22 24 26 28 ..................................................................................................................................... ....................................................................................................................................................... .................................................................................................................................................................................................... Call-a-bus Services ................................................................................................................................................................................... Innovative Approaches in City Logistics Space Management for Urban Delivery Inner-city Night Delivery ........................................................................................................ ................................................................................................................
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...Achieving sustainable transport management Congestion – too many vehicles for the capacity of the road Why do we get congestion? 1 – Roads built were made for Victorian cities so are not wide enough for the current transport we have 2 – Increase in personal mobility * Congestion costs the British economy £25 billion per year Just-in-time deliveries e.g. Sainsbury’s say that it costs them £14 million from lost revenue because of lorries stuck in traffic. * Average speed in London is 11-12 mph * 45% of all journeys are under 2 miles (in UK) * In ultimate form, you get gridlock – where everything is at a stand still going into a main area. * A lot of pollution caused, air pollution, carbon monoxide/dioxide, nitrus oxide, photochemical fog. Pollution is always worse if traffic is at a stand still. 2 ways in which we try to manage transport 1 – try and prevent/reduce/make more difficult car usage 2 – congestion charge of £5 for registering your number plate (mon-fri 6am-6pm). If you have to pay it would hopefully deter people from using their cars in London. massive success, 21% reduction in congestion. * such a success that they extended the zone in 2006 and they put the prices up over the last 12 years and is now £12 a day. Disadvantages: * cabs, minibuses, coaches do not have to pay. * Hopes to reduce the no. of people from travelling into town but can reduce the amount of people going into London so less money into shops...
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...AIR TRANSPORT MANAGEMENT AND OPERATIONS David Lambert Air Transport Management and Operations Contents Introduction - Page 3 Principles of Management – Page 4 Human Resource Management – Page 9 Safety and Security – Page 14 References – Page 18 Introduction All companies and organisations are interested in producing profits, increasing market share and growing the range of products and services that they provide. In order to achieve these goals effective management within the organisation is required. In a general terms management is comprised of ‘top management’, ‘middle management’ and ‘operating management’. However when organisations reach the size of today’s major carriers these definitions can become fully define and a larger framework is required. When the air transport industry was in its infancy management was a much simpler process with smaller teams and shorter communication paths between levels within the organisation. In recent years major carriers have come to employ tens of thousands of people reducing the importance and sense of contribution anyone employee has within the structure. Lines of communication have stretched between decision-making and the ground worker removing a sense of teamwork and a confusion of the ultimate goals of the airline. In the highly competitive world of air transport creating and maintaining an efficient...
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...The Role of Transport Management Systems in Logistical Efficiency Name: William Date: 19/11/2013 The Role of Transport Management Systems in Logistical Efficiency Over the years the importance of logistical operations has grown to cover virtually all operations associated with supply chain management for any typical organization. In addition, the use of information and communication (ICT) systems is quickly gaining popularity with any organization which aims at improving its productivity and service delivery. Consequently, logistical functions and specifically transportation management systems (TMSs) are consistently under strain to demonstrate significant contribution towards accomplishment of organizational objectives (Vanselous, 2013). Furthermore, with the current digitization of organizational operations, TMSs as well as corresponding logistical systems are quickly becoming the norm for organizational logistical efficiency. In this regard, in order to thoroughly understand the role of TMSs it is imperative to conduct further investigations on their impact on overall logistical efficiency. In order to understand the role of transportation management systems, first, it is important to understand the difference between logistical efficiency and logistical effectiveness. According to Fugate, Mentzer and Stank (2010), logistical efficiency refers to organizational processes that involve the actual movement of products and services from one location to another within...
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...The Malaysian Army has served the country for over seventy years in defending and protecting the nation’s sovereignty from internal and external threats. The Malaysian Army also plays an important part in this process of nation building by job creation and knowledge development. This created great foundation to the nation’s peace and stability. The very existence of the MAF is an assurance that Malaysia will continue to remain free, progressive and dynamic in growth and development. The laying down of arms by the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM) in 1989 is a milestone in relation to the achievements of the Malaysian Army, but it is also a turning point in terms of the perception of its importance by the new generation. There is longer actively involve in communism fighting to maintain peace, the Malaysian Army after 1989 is a peacetime soldiering. During peace time soldiering, Army always need to measure the level of awareness of the Army roles amongst Army personnel and one of that is toward the ILS maintenance culture in Army units and relationship to Army performance today in peace time environment. It is therefore crucial that the Malaysian Army build an image of its viability, relevance and important especially to publics in the Army in order to ensure that it is not side-lined by publics and to elicit support for it’s continuation in defending and protecting the nation from all physical threats. This study is important to the Malaysian Army and also the Malaysian Armed...
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...Thermoregulation and Management of the Newborn While on Transport By Tommy Warr RRT-NPS, NREMT-P Neo/Pedi Transport Children’s Medical Center of Dallas From scorching heat in Texas, to frigid winters in Minnesota, transport environments vary markedly in North America accentuating increased opportunities for hypo/hyperthermia cases. Hypothermia and cold stress on transport is a preventable condition that can have a significant impact on mortality and morbidity, especially in pre-term infants. Proper thermoregulation and management should always be a top priority whether the newborn is well or sick. It is important for the transport team to understand infants at increased risk for hypothermia, normal & abnormal core temperatures, normal response to cold stress, mechanisms of heat gain and loss, physiologic response to hypothermia, what methods are used to rewarm hypothermic infants, how to monitor infants during rewarming, and how to handle the hyperthermic infant. Team members need to diligently consider all risk factors that may place these delicate patients at risk and effectively maintain a normal body temperature throughout the entire transport. Infants have a difficult time balancing heat loss with heat production. At birth, the term infant has a surface area-to-volume ratio four times that of its parents and a heat production only one and one-half times as high. In addition, the infants ability to increase heat production in the face of cold stress is only about...
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...What is logistic? The total management of the key operational function in the supply chain which is procurement, production and distribution. Procurement includes purchasing and product development. The production function includes manufacturing and assembling, while distribution function involves warehousing inventory, transport and delivery. The range of activities involved are: 1) Freight forwarding 2) Customs brokerage 3) Freight auditing and payment 4) Vehicle control and communication 5) Product identification and tracking 6) Information system (optimization in management) 7) Transportation services / brokerage 8) Transportation equipment / leasing 9) Private fleet assets / management 10) Warehousing 11) Order management and fulfillment 12) Cross docking 13) Value added, assembly and configuration 14) Site location Transport principles in logistic The larger the capacity transportation vehicles are less costly per unit of freight than smaller capacity vehicle in economy of scale. In the economy of distance the decrease of transportations coast per unit of weight as distance increase. However, to maximize the size of load and the distance being shipped while still meeting the customer expectation. Land logistic Land logistics is a very important link in logistics activities. It extends the delivery services for air and maritime transport from airports and seaports. The most positive characteristic...
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...` Measuring Road Transport Performance 1. Aspects of Performance To a large extent the bottom line indicator of performance of freight and passenger road transport is the operating cost per tonne or tonne-km (or per passenger or passenger-km). Level of service aspects such as travel time, reliability, safety, comfort and security are also important, as well as environmental impacts. Trucks: In countries where large-scale intercity trucking operates efficiently in medium-income countries with predominantly flat terrain, recent experience is that the transport cost per km for a truck-trailer is between US$0.75 and US$ 1.25. For a typical load of 20 tonnes, this works out at US cents 4-6 per tonne km. By contrast efficient small-scale transport in rural areas using small trucks may have a cost of US$ 0.20-0.30 per tonne-km, although it is common for the rates to be expressed on an hourly rather than km basis. Inefficient operations may push these costs much higher. Main factors that affect trucking costs are • economies of scale in truck size, which favor the use of larger trucks, • back-haul possibilities, which depend strongly on the demand pattern, • empty running and idle time due to seasonal variations in demand, • restrictions on working hours, for example due to regulations or safety reasons, • road conditions such as mountainous terrain, deteriorated pavement and traffic congestion, • enforcement procedures along the road and at border posts, which can...
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...Stateline Shipping and Transport Company School of Business MAT 540 This paper was presented in submission for MAT 540 assignment four (Part 1 Only). Abstract This paper serves as a written response to the instructions and questions asked in assignment four. Assignment four instructed the writer to read the case problem Stateline Shipping and Transport Company from pages 273-274 in the text, Introduction to Management Science by Bernard W. Taylor. The assignment then directed the writer to Formulate and Solve and linear transportation programming model, this step was done in QM. The linear programming model is attached herein. Keywords: Linear Programming, Transportation, Shipping, Model Introduction This Case Problem, Stateline Shipping and Transport Company, is based on a girl named Rachel Sundusky who is a manager of the South-Atlantic office for Stateline Shipping and Transport (Taylor, 2010). Rachel is negotiating a contract with Polychem an industrial use chemical company (Taylor, 2010). Polychem has six sites that it would like for Stateline to pick up waste from (Taylor, 2010). Polychem would then like for Stateline to transport the waste for disposal to one of three sites (Taylor, 2010). Polychem has agreed to handle all of the waste at all sites therefore Stateline needs only transport the materials and incur costs for the same (Taylor, 2010). Rachel would like to see what the less costly shipping routes are (Taylor, 2010). Rachel will need all of the...
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...Analysis of trucking industry in China Since 1980s, China's economy has been developing rapidly, as well as the level of technology, which improved the network. With the commodity economy becoming increasingly active, inter-regional economic interaction and exchange of goods has become more frequent, and the average transportation distance also increased. The reform changed the planned economy and the dominance of state-owned transport enterprises in the transportation market situation. Market diversification has become more plentiful, in order to meet the new demands of the national economy in the trucking industry (Cheng, 94). Transportation market diversification and rapid development both contributed to providing goods vehicle loading, freight forwarders and shipping information emerged freight services. These services include traditional truckload, LTL and container, large bulky cargo, dangerous goods transport, and express transportation, social storage transportation services are also occasional established. The rapid development of the transport market diversification and capacity make it possible to services like providing goods vehicles, freight forwarders, and freight shipping information to emerge (Suo, 13). In addition, as the economy system has changed since 1978, the market of the trucking industry is no longer controlled by Chinese government. There are two main types of companies in this industry: the large logistics...
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...1st Edition Logistics Disaster Management Training Programme DHA/94/2 GE.94-00020 Logistics 1st Edition Module prepared by R.S. Stephenson, Ph.D. Disaster Management Training Programme 1993 2 STRUCTURE AND ORGANIZATION OF RELIEF LOGISTICS CONTENTS Acknowledgements ................................................................................6 Introduction ............................................................................................7 Part 1 Relief logistics ..................................................................... 9 Introduction ............................................................................................9 Relief logistics .........................................................................................9 The operating environment ....................................................................12 Case Study – Part 1 .............................................................................12 Planning for effective implementation of logistics programs .....................14 International involvement .......................................................................15 Part 2 Structure and organization of relief logistics ................. 17 The flow of transport and goods ............................................................17 Facilities and equipment ........................................................................19 Operational and support functions ................
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...empty containers, so the various procedures organized to assure the continuity of the circuit of containers. Toward the end a dashboard is realized by means of the various indicators, aiming at the availability and at the smugness of containers at the level of deposit to satisfy the customers so to increase the sales force of CMA CGM Morocco as well as the recommendations implementation to decrea1se the number of the outstanding containers for the CMA CGM. Table of contents: Introduction Part 1: The management of the logistic flows of containers to the CMA CGM Chapter 1: The Company Section 1: CMA CGM, 3rd world ship owner 1) The birth of the group CMA CGM 2) History of the CMA CGM 3) The development 4) Setting-up in Morocco 5) Mission of the CMA CGM Section 2: A presentation of the actors of the port of Casablanca: 1) SOMAPORT, agency of exploitation of ports 2) The public actors of the sector of sea transport in Morocco Chapter 2: The ideal progress of a container Section 1: The technical aspects of the transportation of goods containerized 1) Definition of a container 2) The various types of containers Section 2: The journey of the container within the CMA CGM 1) The optimal journey of the containers within the CMA CGM 2) Modelling Import 3) Modelling Export Part 2: The...
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...Economic Benefits from Air Transport in Nigeria Nigeria country report Acknowledgements Oxford Economics gratefully acknowledge the help that we received from the International Air Transport Association (IATA) in preparation of this report. Through a survey conducted by IATA many organisations across the aviation industry supplied us with data that has formed an integral part of our analysis. In addition, the Airports Council International (ACI) very kindly provided us data on the economic activities at airports. We would like to thank all these organisations for their generosity in supplying this data, without which this report could not have been written. A note on the data reported in the report Unless otherwise stated, the numbers reported in this report relate to the calendar year 2010. Oxford Economics 2012 v1.1 2 Nigeria country report Contents Facts & figures.......................................................................................... 4 1 1.1 1.2 Consumer benefits for passengers and shippers ......................... 7 Consumer benefits ..................................................................................... 7 Estimated consumer benefits ..................................................................... 8 2 2.1 2.2 2.3 Enabling long-term economic growth............................................ 9 Connectivity and the cost of air transport services .................................... 9 How aviation...
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...Case Study 2.1 - Senco Electronics Company Anonymous Student ASCI 644 Integrated Logistics in Aviation Management January 15, 2014 If a product has to be delivered to another country, you are basically left with only two choices, ocean freight or air freight. These two options differ in many ways and choosing between them should depend on the situation. Since the high tech computer industry reacts quickly to customer demand, using air transportation mode to transport goods across the Pacific is more reliable and provides more control over the flow rate of the product entering the U.S. market. By adopting a Just-in-Time manufacturing model, Senco or any other U.S. computer manufacturer could become more lean and efficient. This method alone would keep warehousing cost at a minimum and reduce out of stock items and keep customer satisfaction high. On the other hand, ocean freight allows for larger lot sizes, less shipment frequency, longer in-transit times and less reliability than shipment by air (Bowen & Leinbach, 2009). While air freight is most expensive, ocean fright is one of the cheapest ways to transport goods from one country to another. Cargo ships have large cargo holds and, more significantly, the cost of the voyage is shared by a lot of other cargo that is on the same ship. When delivery time is not an issue, this is the option that should be used because it will save you a lot of money (Zinner , 2011). On the other hand, the customer should always be left...
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...Outcomes Assessed Learning Outcomes Assessed Feedback relating learning outcomes and assessment criteria given to students: Areas for Commendation Areas for Improvement General Comment Assessors Signature Overall Mark : Subject to ratification by the assessment board Moderators Signature Students Signature: You must sign this declaring that it is all your own work and all sources of information have been referenced: TLH307 International Tourism & Hospitality Management - Urban Tourism TLH307 International Tourism & Hospitality Management Urban Tourism Critical Evaluation of Customer Satisfaction of Transportation Services in Hong Kong Muhammad Norfarid Bin Farali Khan Student ID: 089101850 BSc (Hons) International Tourism and Hospitality Management The University of Sunderland Date of Submission: 18-Jul-2011 2 Muhammad Norfarid Bin Farali Khan BTTD1 0907A Bachelor Of Science(Hons) In International Tourism and Hospitality Management TLH307 International Tourism & Hospitality Management - Urban Tourism Table of Contents 1.0 INTRODUCTION ......................................................................................................................... 4 2.0 LITERATURE REVIEW .............................................................................................................. 6 2.1 Transportation and Tourism ................................................................................................... 6 2.2 Transportation in Hong...
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