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Strategic Transport Management: Efficiency and Effectiveness Considerations in Transport Services

This chapter delves into strategic, tactical, and operational principles in transport management, including legislation, fiscal measures, and government policies. Efficiency and effectiveness considerations such as volume of traffic, transit time, and selecting transport services are discussed at length. Critical topics include traffic consolidation methods, benefits of unitized loads and containers, intermodal transport, and guidelines for routing and scheduling long-distance trips. The chapter also covers clustering service points, tracking and tracing, expediting, and coordination of incoming traffic.

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Strategic Transport Management: Efficiency and Effectiveness Considerations in Transport Services

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  1. Transport management Chapter 17

  2. This chapter covers the following aspects: Strategic transport management Tactical transport management Operational principles Outline

  3. Legislation Direct supply Fiscal measures Monetary measures Moral appeal and persuasion Policies relating to strategic commodities Government policy instruments affecting the transport industry

  4. Procurement policy Provision of information Research and development Government policy instruments affecting the transport industry (continued)

  5. Efficiency considerations: Volume of traffic Opportunity to obtain back hauls Labour specialisation Core versus non-core business Capital investment choices Selecting transport services

  6. Effectivenessconsiderations: Suitability Accessibility Goods security Transit time Reliability Flexibility Selecting transport services(continued)

  7. Selection of a specific carrier: Technical capability Operational capability Acceptable price Selecting transport services (continued)

  8. Service comparison of transport modes

  9. The concept of a consignment Methods of traffic consolidation: Consolidation of through-movements Traffic pooling and distribution Reducing trip frequency Other methods of consolidation Consolidation of traffic

  10. Consolidation of traffic

  11. A collection of items grouped together by being bound as a package, stacked securely on a portable platform (for example, a pallet) or packed into a container. Containers are rectangular, box-like devices used to consolidate, store, protect and handle a number of items as a freight unit. Unit loads and containers

  12. Advantages of unitised loads: Improved efficiency Easier identification and tracing Better security Better space utilisation Shorter transit time Unit loads and containers (continued)

  13. Containers reduce: handling; vehicle turnaround times; theft and damage; and labour requirements. Intermodal transport: A logistically linked movement using two or more modes of transport on the line-haul part of the route Unit loads and containers (continued)

  14. Use of containers to facilitate loading, carriage and unloading

  15. Continuous flow Maximum unit size Maximum vehicle size Maximum mass-carrying capacity in relation to total vehicle mass Adaptation of vehicle unit to volume and nature of traffic Guidelines for routing and scheduling long-distance trips

  16. Standardisation Compatible unit load equipment Long-haul freight consolidation Maximum utilisation of inputs Guidelines for routing and scheduling long-distance trips (continued)

  17. Cluster the service points as densely as possible. Cluster service points according to daily trips. Determine routes starting with the furthest service point. Sections of a route must not cross. Guidelines for routing and scheduling collection and delivery trips

  18. Two routes must not overlap. Use the largest available vehicles. Collect and deliver in the same trip. Minimise the distance the heaviest loads will travel. Avoid single service points located far from a cluster. Avoid narrow time windows at service points. Guidelines for routing and scheduling collection and delivery trips (continued)

  19. Clustering service points

  20. Construction of routes

  21. Overview Tracking and tracing Expediting (including cross-docking) Diversion and reconsignment In-transit privileges Demurrage and detention Co-ordinating incoming traffic

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