COURSE UNIT TITLE

: TRANSPORTATION ECONOMICS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
DLU 7035 TRANSPORTATION ECONOMICS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

Logistics and Maritime Transport Non-Thesis (Evening)

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR SADIK ÖZLEN BAŞER

Offered to

Logistics and Maritime Transport Non-Thesis (Evening)

Course Objective

Learning the economic importance of the transportation systems. Gaining the knowledge of main terms related to transportation economy. Discussing and learning the subjects of transportation business and management. Understanding the effects of the national economic conjuncture in every step of transportation like investment, management and operation. Gaining the capability of making economic analysis and creating analytical solutions for the possible problems in the transportation sector.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Learning the economic environment of transportation and logistics
2   Analyzing the transportation environment through the perspective of economics
3   Learning and applying the economic policies
4   Understanding the fundementals of economics analysis related to transportation
5   Solving and managing the business management problems and sharing the solutions in oral and written forms

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction
2 Topics of macro-micro economics, economic systems
3 Shortage and choice, supply and demand
4 Market demand and elasticity
5 Input decisions, cost - benefit analysis
6 Output-price decisions
7 Midterm exam
8 Market structure
9 Revenue and expenditures
10 Employing, unemployment and inflation
11 Financial Policy - Monetary Policy
12 International trade and comperative advantage
13 Transportation systems, components, transportation mode selection factors
14 Characteristics of transportation market, unitization in transportation, standartization

Recomended or Required Reading

Main economics and business resources, maritime, aviation and logistics resources, publications of national and international economic organizations

Seyidoğlu, Halil. Uluslararası Iktisat: Teori Politika ve Uygulama. Güzem Can Yayınları, Istanbul, 2005
Baumol and Blinder. Economics: Principles. 1996
Stopford, Martin. Maritime Economics. Routledge, UK.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Literature survey, data analysis, case studies.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.20 + STT * 0.30 + FIN* 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.20 + STT * 0.30 + RST* 0.50


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Achieving specialist level of knowledge, skill and competency and researching, commenting, expressing (oral-written forms) in logistics and maritime transport sector in terms of of tranportation economics will be evaluated.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

e-mail: hakki.kisi@deu.edu.tr Tel: 3018832

Office Hours

Tuesday, 16.00 17.30

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 6 72
Preparation for midterm exam 1 5 5
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Preparing assignments 1 15 15
Preparing presentations 1 5 5
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 150

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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