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Transport Logistics
Internationalisation of the economy influences global transport flows
The service and information society is placing increasingly higher demands on mobility and logistics. In addition to increased communication flows, internationalisation trends are leading above all to the increasing networking of goods flows. The strong growth in world trade is accompanied by a significant increase in the load in the global transport networks due to rapidly growing container transports in air and sea freight. On the one hand, the existing main routes between North America and Asia as well as Europe and America will take on more traffic - on the other hand, other routes will gain in importance.
New challenges in global transport networks
The progressive containerisation of international trade poses new economic and ecological challenges for today's transport networks. The future challenge is to assess the changes in the mobility of both goods and people more reliably in order to be able to react with the right corporate and logistics strategies.
Integrated transport networks are a prerequisite for efficient transport logistics
In the future, the control of inter- and intracontinental flows of goods can only be guaranteed on the basis of integrated transport networks. Against this background, it is of particular importance to ensure efficiency in process handling as well as the environmental compatibility of the choice of transport modes. The prerequisites for an efficient and ecologically sustainable design of the networks are the interconnection of infrastructures and the creation of intermodality of the modes of transport.
Learning Objectives
The Transport Logistics course covers the consideration of globally positioned transport networks and their actors from a holistic and cross-modal point of view and focuses on research approaches to cross-actor and cross-interface networking of logistics systems with the aim of holistic performance and reliability improvement in the entire network. The primary objective of the transport logistics courses is above all the cross-modal view.
The Transport Logistics course covers the core areas of transport logistics infrastructures, technologies, services, information and communication technologies in transport, as well as port and airport logistics. The basis of the teaching is the transfer of basic knowledge and the development of solution competence through case studies of cooperating practical partners within the framework of the Transport Logistics course.
Requirements
- To complete the course, the courses "Intermodal and Urban Transport Logistics" and "Digital Networks in Transport Logistics" must be attended.
Intermodal and Urban Transport Logistics
The course Intermodal and Urban Transport Logistics teaches the basics of transport logistics systems. After the introduction to the basics of transport logistics, means and carriers of transport are introduced and their performance profiles, transshipment points and underlying business systems are discussed. Building on this, complex topics focusing on sustainability and digitalization are discussed, such as information and communication systems in transport, new fulfillment concepts and electromobility. Furthermore, contents on security and cooperation in international transport chains and transport networks in trade will be dealt with in depth. The main focus of the course is to impart basic knowledge and problem-solving skills for transport logistics issues. The course will be concluded with a written exam.
The contents of the course Intermodal and Urban Transport Logistics are taught in 6 lecture blocks, which are held alternately by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Frank Straube and Prof. Dr. Sebastian Jürgens, supported by scientific staff of the Chair of Logistics.
The communication and provision of the documents is done via the corresponding ISIS course. The course name and other details will be announced in the information meeting of the Chair of Logistics.
Notice! To complete the module, the seminar Digital Networks in Transport Logistics must also be taken. In the seminar, building on the acquired basic knowledge, in-depth case studies are worked on current topics of transport logistics, such as port and airport logistics, rail transport as well as urban transport, combined transport and the influence of the advancing digitalization.
Course Details
| The module description with information on the workload as well as the type of examination and grading can be found here. | |
| Course Number | 73 110 L 1620 |
| Time of the course | Mondays, 12 - 14h |
| Room | H9107 PC-Pool |
| Language | German |
| Contact | Gülsah Kaya, M.Sc. |
| ISIS-Course: Intermodale und urbane Verkehrslogistik SoSe2024 | Link |
Registration
Registration via QISPOS or at the examination office is required for participation in the course. In addition, registration is required in the corresponding ISIS course (see above).
Documents and current information are communicated via the associated ISIS course. The course is limited to 30 students.
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Digital Networks in Transport Logistics
The course offers students the opportunity to deepen their theoretical knowledge of transport logistics by means of practical case studies. The focus of the course is on the current and future changes in transport logistics in the course of digitalisation and increasing networking.
In the course of these events, the participants are motivated to independently develop solutions to current challenges in digital transport logistics and to discuss them with the course instructors with regard to practical relevance and implementation.
The course functions as an open discussion platform for the transfer of know-how between science and practice and rounds off the course in transport logistics.
The event is limited to a maximum of 20 participants.
Topics in summer semester 2024
In the summer semester 2024, the following topics will be covered in the course:
- Mobile communications standard 5G - significance for transport logistics
- Predictive maintenance - use cases in transport logistics
- Digital twins - use of simulation methods in transport logistics
- 3D printing - opportunity or risk for logistics?
- Automation of seaports - state of the art and perspectives
- Innovative delivery concepts in last mile logistics
- Transparent supply chains - current challenges and approaches to solutions
- Alternative drive concepts in air transport
- Alternative drive concepts in road freight transport
- Alternative drive concepts in maritime transport
The kick-off with subsequent topic allocation will take place on 13.05.2024 from 12:00 in Room H 9107 or in ISIS. The other event dates in the summer semester 2024 are generally planned as attendance events. Further information on the kick-off can be found in the ISIS course.
Course Details
| The module description with information on the workload as well as the type of examination and grading can be found here. | |
| Course Number | 73 110 L 1484 |
| Time of the course & Room | Information via ISIS |
| Language | German |
| Contact | Maximilian Bähring, M.Sc. |
| ISIS-Course | Link |
Current Information
- To complete the module, the lecture Intermodal and Urban Transport Logistics must also be taken.
- Documents and current information are communicated via the associated ISIS course.
- This course can only be selected in the compulsory elective area of economics. Students who take logistics as a technical subject in the diploma programme in industrial engineering cannot take this course.
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