Transportation Operations Management

✍ Scribed by Darren Prokop

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 242
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Transportation Operations Management provides the analytical tools and industry-wide context necessary to understand and address the critical real-world problems in transportation operations and planning that shippers, carriers, and third-party logistics providers face every day. The book examines operational problems from all transportation modes―air, motor carrier, water vessel, pipeline, and rail―to show how these interact in the real world of today’s carriers and shippers. The book also outlines and analyzes key issues such as designing efficient domestic and international transportation networks; choosing optimal locations within market spaces; designing infrastructure to manage network congestion; leveraging intermodalism for operational flexibility; leveraging techniques for costing, pricing, and revenue management; using tracking technology for decisionmaking; maintaining regulatory compliance in operations; and managing environmental stewardship. Paying particular attention to the influence of the logistical constraints of time, physical space, and location, the book reveals the key role of transportation in strategic and tactical decision-making. The book uses mathematical techniques such as the theory of capacity management, the microeconomics of costing and pricing, risk management, linear optimization, productivity measurement, queueing theory, and complex scheduling. The book also uses real-world problems with their actual marketplace constraints in technology, geography, and government regulations to provide an applied context to the techniques examined.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Cover
Transportation Operations Management
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Author's biography
Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction to the transportation problem
The role of transportation in operations management
What is operations management?
What is supply chain management?
What is logistics?
The black box of transportation
Efficiencies in shipment consolidation, networks, and tracking
Transportation value vs. cost
Variable cost and fixed cost
Cost of service and value of service
Introduction of the players
The five carrier modes
The shippers/consignors
The intermediaries
Contractual interaction: The bill of lading
Issues and problems going forward
References
Chapter 2: The economics of transportation operations
Transportation and the economy
Economies of scale
Market failures in transportation
Regulation of transportation
Motor carriers
Water vessels
Railroads
Air carriers
Pipelines
Issues and problems going forward
References
Chapter 3: Transportation and supply chain management
Supply chain efficiency
The role of the consignor
The spot market
Supply chain linkages
Cooperation and coordination
Purchasing and transportation
Inventory control and transportation
Just-in-time operations
Ecommerce speed over capacity utilization
Transportation for production and distribution
Issues and problems going forward
References
Further reading
Chapter 4: Location, networks, and congestion
The role of geography
The earth is round
Orthodromes
Natural choke points
Location theory
Agglomerations
Gateways
Transportation networks
Design options
Managing congestion
Issues and problems going forward
References
Further reading
Chapter 5: Transportation fleet management
Private fleet vs for-hire
Avoiding fixed costs
Own vs lease
Motor carrier owner-operators
Front-haul vs back-haul
Fleet management
Issues and problems going forward
References
Chapter 6: The role of information technology in transportation
From steam to data
Digitization and transportation
Predictive analytics
Artificial intelligence
Blockchain
Electronic bills of lading
Data sharing and customer service
Adoption and diffusion
Issues and problems going forward
References
Chapter 7: Problems in transportation costing
Joint cost vs common cost
Total cost of ownership
The cost of demurrage and detention
Cost of regulatory compliance
IMO 2020
Zero-emission vehicles
Issues and problems going forward
References
Chapter 8: Problems in transportation revenue management
Revenue and cost
Revenue management
Price discrimination
Ocean carrier contracting and antitrust immunity
Using auctions to find the price
Issues and problems going forward
References
Chapter 9: Risk management in transportation
Risk and uncertainty
Risk and uncertainty along the supply chain
Risk assessment
Force majeure
General average
Insurance and reinsurance
A single window
Issues and problems going forward
References
Chapter 10: The future of transportation operations
Coordinating physics and psychology
Automation and labor
Energy usage
References
Index
Back Cover