COURSE UNIT TITLE

: TRANSPORTATION LOGISTICS

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
CIE 5059 TRANSPORTATION LOGISTICS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 7

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR SERHAN TANYEL

Offered to

TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING
TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING
TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING

Course Objective

To learn and understand the introductory concepts in Logistics management and in transportation, the importance of transportation in society, the concepts of Logistics management, management of transportation, transportation systems and networks, modes of transportation and multimodal/intermodal transportation movements, supply/demand in transportation systems; to build a thorough understanding of the theoretical and conceptual basis upon which the practice of transportation in Logistics management; to understand the role of transport managers on Logistic

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To learn the technical terms of Logistic management and planning in Turkish/English
2   To Express the importance of logistic systems in terms of civil engineering.
3   To describe the principals of logistic systems and connections.
4   Oral/Written statement on a subject about the logistic.
5   To interpret the role of transportation managers on logistic

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction Outline: Overview of Transportation Logistics
2 The Logistics Concept; The Logistics System; The Supply-Chin Concept
3 Elements of Logistics System
4 Transportation In Logistics Management
5 Transportation, Society and The Government
6 Components Of Transportation, Homework assignment
7 Modes Of Transportation
8 I.MIDTERM EXAM
9 Multimodal And Intermodal Transportation
10 Traffic Management
11 International Transportation and Logistics
12 Transportation Economics, Transportation Systems and Environmental impacts
13 II.MIDTERM EXAM
14 Overall Summary and Concluding Remarks Homework Submission and Presentations

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook(s):
WOOD, D. F. AND JOHNSON, J. C. (1996): "Contemporary Transportation", 5th ed., Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ.
MORLAK, E. K. (1978): "Introduction to Transportation Engineering and Planning", McGraw Hill, NY.

Supplementary Book(s):

Muller, G. (1995), Intermodal Freight Transportation, 3rd ed., ENO, Landsdown, VA.

Materials: Presentations, course notes.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

The presentations and visual presentation slides.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE 1 MIDTERM EXAM 1
2 MTE 2 MIDTERM EXAM 2
3 ASG ASSIGNMENT
4 FIN FINAL EXAM
5 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE 1 * 0.20 + MTE 2 * 0.20 + ASG * 0.10 + FIN * 0.50
6 RST RESIT
7 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE 1 * 0.20 + MTE 2 * 0.20 + ASG * 0.10 + RST * 0.50


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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

LO 1-2-3: Consideration with mid-term exams and final exam
LO 4-5: Consideration with homework assignments

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Assoc.Prof.Dr. Serhan TANYEL: serhan.tanyel@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

The course schedule will be announced by the faculty member is created.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 3 36
Tutorials 0 0 0
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 5 60
Preparation for midterm exam 2 15 30
Preparation for final exam 1 18 18
Preparation for quiz etc. 0 0 0
Preparing assignments 1 15 15
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 2 2 4
Quiz etc. 0 0 0
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 165

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11
LO.1334
LO.243
LO.353
LO.435
LO.533