GMS 803 Study Guide - Final Guide: Bulk Cargo, Network Rail, Geographical Distance

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Global Management Studies
• Course: GMS 803
• Professor: Hossein Zolfagharinia

Document Summary

Goal of transportation: to transform the geographical attributes of freight, people or info from an origin to a destination conferring them an added value in the process. Info tech- improvement of traffic flows and better management of transport assets. Physical- physical characteristics in terms of load units. Transactional- negotiate with providers of transport services for slots and times. Distribution- organized in sequences where more complex are involving different modes and terminals. Week 2 p2: transportation and the spatial structure. Transport distance- accounts for existing structure of the transport network (pickup, transhipment, delivery, etc. ) Logistical distance- includes physical flows, but also a set of activities necessary for the management of these flows (geographical distance units are less important) For freight, significant tasks are order processing, packing, sorting and inventory management. Term network refers to the framework of routes within a system of locations (nodes)