mtppcpd

Multimodal Transport Policy and Practice

Course Leader: Mr Tom Zunder
Semester: 2
Course Duration: 2 weeks
Credit Value: 10 CATS (5 ECTS)
Course fee: £1125

Aims

  • To provide students with a comprehensive overview of the main issues related to the increasingly important fields of multimodal, intermodal and co-modal transport policies and practices in global transport chains.

Outline of Syllabus

  • Intermodal transport, multimodal and co-modal transport; European freight transport policy: past, present and future, modal shift, sustainable transport, competitive alternative modes, road pricing, negative effects of transport, conventional and alternative fuel policy;
  • Information flow systems and technologies, role of ICT in freight transport and logistics, development of systems architecture for eFreight/eLogistics;
  • Policy on modal transfer/value adding points, strategic issues affecting warehousing, warehousing cost, types and options, inventory cost, transport cost, alternatives, trade off for best option;
  • Multimodal market: intermodal transport demand, intermodal seaport hinterland traffic, continental traffic, future market challenges,
  • Multimodal transport players: roles in intermodal transport, market dynamics, market organisation, marketing channels, decision makers in intermodal transport;
  • Production of multimodal transport service: theory and practices; (antenna and Y) shuttle service, triangular service, collection and delivery service, hub-and-spoke service, role of terminals, intermodal service production;
  • Multimodal transport infrastructure: the maritime network, inland waterways network, rail network and road network;
  • Multimodal transport technology: interoperability - the challenges, intermodal loading units, single wagon load, transport units, transhipment technology;
  • Multimodal transport cost; main haul, pluck and delivery, ILU cost, modal transfer cost, infrastructure charges and transport chain management cost;
  • Policy seminar on contemporary topics;
  • Why freight transport policies?
  • Political responsibilities: Infrastructure development; Internalisation of external cost; competition and liberalisation policies; encouraging innovation: research and development; resolving the problems of interoperability;
  • Modal shift policy- what is wrong?;
  • The impact of policies on intermodal transport;
  • What needs to be done to promote intermodal transport?

Intended Knowledge Outcomes

  • Multimodal transport policy and practices;
  • Information flow systems for multimodal transport;
  • Policy on modal transfer/value adding points;
  • Multimodal transport market; demand and supply;
  • Multimodal transport players;
  • Production of multimodal transport service - theory and practice;
  • Infrastructure for multimodal transport;
  • Technologies for multimodal freight transport;
  • Investment cost for multimodal freight transport;
  • Contemporary policies, notions and issues;

Intended Skill Outcomes

  • Understand, evaluate and develop multimodal transport policy;
  • Understand and evaluate the information system for multimodal transport;
  • Understand and evaluate multimodal markets, players, roles and responsibilities;
  • Understand and evaluate the infrastructure, technology and investment capital needed for multimodal transport.
  • Understand and evaluate the production of multimodal freight services and their contemporary challenges.

Teaching methods

  • Lectures;
  • Small group teaching;
  • Independent study.

Assessment methods

  • written examination (70%);
  • oral presentation (15%);
  • report (15%).