Improving the students’ knowledge and Professional skills on analyzing, designing and modeling logistics systems

This course mainly deals with fundamentals of transportation management, distribution's contribution to the logistics process, transport systems, modes of transport and intermodal transportation, urban transport, the role of customer service, ecommerce and physical distribution, transport cost characteristics and rate profiles by the modes of transportation and services. Transportation modeling through computer information systems, decision support systems, optimization models, simulation, advanced statistics, and commercial logistics software systems will also be emphasized.