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| LOGI0012-1 | Logistics and transportation
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| Duration : | 30h Th |
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| Credits/ECTS : |
| Master in Business Engineering, didactic approach, 1st year | | Second semester | | 5 |
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| Master en ingénieur de gestion, à finalité spécialisée en financial engineering, 1st year | | Second semester | | 5 |
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| Master in Management Engineering, professional Focus, 1st year | | Second semester | | 5 |
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| Master en ingénieur de gestion, à finalité spécialisée en intrapreneuriat, 1st year | | Second semester | | 5 |
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| Master en ingénieur de gestion, à finalité spécialisée en Modélisation et technologie, 1st year | | Second semester | | 5 |
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| Master en ingénieur de gestion, à finalité spécialisée en supply chain management, 1st year | | Second semester | | 5 |
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| Master en ingénieur de gestion, à finalité spécialisée en performance management systems, 1st year | | Second semester | | 5 |
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| Holder(s) : | Sabine Limbourg |
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| Language : | English language |
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| Course contents : | Today, a firm can't be competitive without a good transportation and logistics network. Our goal is to understand the role and importance of transportation in the supply chain and in the economy. An overview of the different transportation modes: Road, Rail, Sea, Air, Pipeline and Intermodal transportation, allows supply chain manager to be aware of the performance of these different transportation modes in terms of costs, responsiveness, land use and environment.
After these considerations, freight transport will be modelized using traditional four-step transportation planning model, consisting of trip generation, trip distribution, modal split, and assignment stages. This last step involves fundamental network flow problems such as the shortest path problem. The traffic congestion problem, the transport mode choice decisions and the impacts of transport infrastructure will be especially highlighted.
Several case studies are analyzed with a particular focus on hub-and-spoke transportation concept for express delivery or intermodal transport network. |
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| Course objective : | C1. Understand the importance of transport in the overall Supply Chain performance
C3. Introduce the different modes of transportation and the differences in managing each.
C3. Knowledge of steps necessary and data required to complete a long-range transportation plan.
P2. Give students the opportunity to describe, analyze, and recommend improvements in selecting and managing appropriate transportation modes.
C4. Resolve problems inherent in transportation management.
C4. Ability to make tradeoffs with multiple factors in project planning and design
C1. Understand the impact of the global economy, politics and the environment on transport management.
C4. Exchange ideas with industry guest speakers when available. |
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| Prerequisites : | Basic notions of mathematics and statistics
Ability to follow algorithmic instructions |
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| Organization : | Methodology used:
A1. Lectures
A1. Readings
A1. Discussions
A2. Exercise sessions
A3. Group projects
General planning of the course:
Second semester |
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| Written notes : | Available documents on the virtual campus Lol@:
1. Syllabus
2. Exercises
Recommended references:
[1] Coyle, Bardi, and Novack: Transportation, 6th edition, Thompson south Wetern publishing, 2006
[2] Hazen and Lynch: The role of transportation in the Supply Chain, CFL Publishing 2008
[3] Ortúzar and Willumsen: Modelling Transport, Wiley; 3d edition 2001 |
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| Assessment : | E2/E3. Group projects (~15%)
E1/E2/E3. Written exam (~85%) |
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| Contacts : | Sabine LIMBOURG
Building N1, Room 337
sabine.limbourg@ulg.ac.be |
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