Traffic Systems and Handling Technology
| Lecturer | Prof. Dr.-Ing. Carlos Jahn |
| Contact Person | Ole Grasse |
| Target Audience | LUM, WILUM |
| Lecture Type | Lecture & Group exercise |
| Lecture Term | Winter term |
| Language | German |
| Credit Points | 6 ECTS |
| Type of Examination | Exam (bonus points through exercises) |
Description
The course Traffic Systems and Handling Technology deals with fundamentals, capabilities and areas of application of different transport and handling technologies. Students learn to define, to evaluate and to dimension appropriate technologies for specified transport and handling tasks.
The lecture aims to provide skills of basics, potential application areas and advisability of different transport and handling techniques. At the end of the lecture, the students are capable of electing suitable techniques for evaluation and dimensioning of certain transport and handling problems. In addition to freights and loading units, the different means of transport, transshipment terminals and the necessary equipment will be addressed. Besides the traffic routes road, rail, waterways (inland and sea waterways) and air, the combined transport is also discussed.
Lecture Contents
- Foundations, capabilities, utility of different transport and handling technologies
- Overview over transported goods, loading unit, means of transportation, terminals and equipment
- Mode of transports: road, rail, water (inland and sea), air as well as intermodal transport
Literature
- Arnold, Dieter (2008). Handbuch Logistik.
- Clausen, Uwe and Geiger, Christiane (2013). Verkehrs- und Transportlogistik. [Abstract]
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- Conrady, Roland and Fichert, Frank and Sterzenbach, Rüdiger (2019). Luftverkehr: Betriebswirtschaftliches Lehr- und Handbuch. [doi]
- Gleißner, Harald and Femerling, Christian (2012). Logistik: Grundlagen - Übungen - Fallbeispiele. [Abstract]
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- Kranke, Andre and Schmied, Martin and Schön, Andrea D. (2011). CO2-Berechnung in der Logistik: Datenquellen, Formeln, Standards.
- Pachl, Jörn (2018). Systemtechnik des Schienenverkehrs: Bahnbetrieb planen, steuern und sichern. [doi]
- Rodrigue, Jean-Paul (2020). Geography of Transport Systems. [www]