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.

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.

The module includes both a lecture and a seminar component. The dates and content are coordinated and can be treated by the students as one course.

Lecture
The lecture teaches the basics of transport logistics systems. After an introduction to the basics of transport logistics, means and carriers of transportation are presented and their performance profiles, transfer points and underlying business systems are discussed. Building on this, topics focusing on sustainability and digitalization will be discussed, such as information and communication systems in transport, new fulfilment concepts and electromobility. In addition, content on security and cooperation in international transport chains and transport networks in trade will be covered in depth. The lecture focuses on imparting basic knowledge and problem-solving skills for transport logistics issues. The contents of the lecture will be tested in a written exam at the end of the semester.

Seminar

The seminar 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 current and future changes in transport logistics in the course of digitalization and increasing networking.

As part of the seminar, participants are encouraged to independently develop solutions to current challenges in digital transport logistics and discuss them with the course instructors in terms of practical relevance and implementation.

The seminar acts as an open discussion platform for the transfer of know-how between science and practice and rounds off the transport logistics module.

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.

Documents and current information are communicated via the associated ISIS course. The course is limited to 30 students.

• This module can only be chosen as a compulsory elective module in the engineering field. Until SoSe24, the module was credited in another area - if there are any problems in your schedule, please contact us directly.