Transportation Operations Management

Transportation Operations Management provides analytical tools and industry-wide context to address real-world transportation problems, covering all modes and key issues, and using mathematical techniques and real-world problems with marketplace constraints.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 240 pages
Publication date: 14 March 2022
Publisher: Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc

Transportation Operations Management is a comprehensive guide to understanding and addressing the complex real-world problems faced by shippers, carriers, and third-party logistics providers in transportation operations and planning. It examines operational issues across all transportation modes, including air, motor carrier, water vessel, pipeline, and rail, to demonstrate how they interact in the real world. The book highlights key challenges such as designing efficient transportation networks, selecting optimal locations, designing infrastructure to manage network congestion, leveraging intermodalism for operational flexibility, and managing environmental stewardship. It emphasizes the importance of transportation in strategic and tactical decision-making, utilizing mathematical techniques such as capacity management, microeconomics, risk management, linear optimization, productivity measurement, queueing theory, and complex scheduling. The book also provides real-world problems with their actual marketplace constraints in technology, geography, and government regulations to provide an applied context to the techniques examined.

Weight: 390g
Dimension: 152 x 226 x 15 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780128154151