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Course Name : Transportation Management
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Degree: Post-Graduate
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Code
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Year/Semester
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Local Credits
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ECTS Credits
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Course Implementation, Hours/Week
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Course
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Tutorial
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Laboratory
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LTY502
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1/2 (SPRING)
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3
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6
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3
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0
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Department
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Logistics and Supply Chain Management
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Instructors
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Assc. Prof. Dr. A. Zafer ACAR
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Contact Information
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e-mail: azacar@pirireis.edu.tr
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Office Hours
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Wednesday 14:00 – 16:00
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Web page
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https://www.pirireis.edu.tr/uluslararasi-lojistik-ve-tasimacilik-akademik-kadro
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Course Type
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Compulsory
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Course Language
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Turkish
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Course Prerequisites
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Course Description
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- definition of transportation management
- transportation policy
- probleems and solution of transportation
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Course Objectives
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The objectives of transportation management course are;
- To put forward the loading information, workflow, costs, pricing, organizational issues and management about the road, air, sea, rail and combined transport, in order to be exercised in harmony and integrated with other logistics activities,
- To explain the common transport policy of European Union and transport policy of Turkey in order to clarify the interaction between transport systems and economic development,
- To analyze the transportation problems and determine the method of solution encountered in logistics organizations in order to achieve an efficient transportation management,
- With the help of linear programming to gain the ability of obtaining algorithm for transport models and to form the mathematical model of transportation problems
- To analyze and interpret the outputs of transportation model.
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Course Learning Outcomes
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By students who passed from LTY506 Planning and Modeling successfully
Students will
- Expressing the consept and structure of the logistics
- To know the goal of logistics and basic activities
- To know demand forecasting methods and to use basic statistical techniques
- To know transportation modes and making decision based on transportation modes
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Instructional Methods and Techniques
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The presentation of theoretical and practical techniques
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Tutorial Place
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-
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Co-term Condition
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-
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Textbook
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Text Books
- International Transport Management, Metin Çancı-Murat Erdal, 2003
- Operations Research – Hamdy A. Taha 6.Basım
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Other References
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Lecture Notes
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Homework & Projects
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Laboratory Work
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Some problems are prepared, modelled, solved and reported on computer
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Computer Use
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Some problems are prepared, modelled and reported on MS Excel
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Other Activities
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Using MS Excel
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