Best Practices in Transport and Traffic

Brief description

  • Intermodal transport with non-craneable trailer systems
  • Use of platform concepts by traders to minimise transport costs
  • Loading systems
  • Tracking & tracing systems (for loading, driving, unloading) and their integration into ETA/time slot booking systems
  • Route planning systems in general cargo traffic
  • Forecast and scenario methods
  • Risk analyses, reachability analyses and potential calculations
  • Economic evaluation methods
  • Quantitative and qualitative methods for ex-ante and ex-post analyses
  • Fundamentals of logic for consistent argument building

Mode of delivery

face to face

Type

compulsory

Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools

Kummer, S. (2010): Einführung in die Verkehrswirtschaft, facultas, 2nd ed., Wien.
Wittenbrink, P. (2012): Transportkostenmanagement im Straßengüterverkehr, Springer, 2nd ed., Wiesbaden.
Krogerus M./ Tschäppeler, R. (2017): The Decision Book: Fifty models for strategic thinking, Profile Books.
Döring, N./ Bortz, J. (2016): Forschungsmethoden und Evaluation in den Sozial- und Humanwissenschaften, Springer, 5th ed.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Input, blended learning, individual and group work, presentations, feedback

Assessment methods and criteria

Written final exam 70% (open questions)
Continuous assessment (30 %): Individual and group work and presentation including assessed partial examinations
Content criteria: Degree of problem identification and problem characterisation, complexity of solutions in terms of technical and methodological competence.
Formal criteria: Comprehensiveness of answers, correct use of technical terms, and independent presentation of results.

Prerequisites and co-requisites

Concepts of Logistics and SCM

Infos

Degree programme

Logistics & Strategic Management (Master)

Cycle

Master

ECTS Credits

3.00

Language of instruction

German

Curriculum

Part-Time

Academic year

2025

Semester

1 WS

Incoming

No

Learning outcome

After successful completion of the course, students can

  • explain and apply platform concepts in enterprises to minimise transport costs (2, 3),
  • describe intermodal concepts using non-craneable trailers (2) and apply concepts in the control of transport chains (3),
  • apply methods of futurology in a concrete way (3),
  • analyse IT systems for the planning, management, implementation and control of transport services in freight transport (4),
  • apply quantitative and qualitative methods (e.g. for potential assessment, risk analysis or evaluation) (4),
  • diagnose (4) and refute (5) contradictions in technical and political strategies
  • estimate or calculate potentials of important KPIs (4, 5)
  • evaluate optimisations of IT systems use in freight transport (5),
  • analyse and evaluate existing concepts of the entire mobility sector from different perspectives (technical, stakeholder-related) (4, 5),
  • develop basic structures of new concepts for current challenges in transport and traffic planning (6).

Course code

1392-21-01-BB-DE-06