The Business of Transportation
[2 Volumes]
1st Edition
Published on 12. May 2014
560 pages
978-0-313-39736-3 (ISBN)
Description
This is a must-have resource for anyone interested in the latest information about the complex field of transportation-and how it is transforming today's business environment.
This wide-ranging, two-volume work explores the transportation industry in all its many guises. It demonstrates how transportation is vital to most businesses and how it facilitates trade and globalization. It also explains how transportation figures into environmental and supply chain security challenges in the modern world. The contributors get into the nitty-gritty of how the business of transportation works and who the players are. Equally important, they show why those who depend on transportation in their business cannot afford to ignore such details when seeking greater efficiency, growth, profit, and market share.
This wide-ranging, two-volume work explores the transportation industry in all its many guises. It demonstrates how transportation is vital to most businesses and how it facilitates trade and globalization. It also explains how transportation figures into environmental and supply chain security challenges in the modern world. The contributors get into the nitty-gritty of how the business of transportation works and who the players are. Equally important, they show why those who depend on transportation in their business cannot afford to ignore such details when seeking greater efficiency, growth, profit, and market share.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Interest Age: From 7 to 17 years
ISBN-13
978-0-313-39736-3 (9780313397363)
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Book
05/2014
Praeger Publishers Inc
€133.92
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Person
Darren Prokop, PhD, is professor of logistics in the College of Business & Public Policy at the University of Alaska, Anchorage.
Content
Preface
1. Airport Management: Facilitating the Business of Air Transportation
Seth Young
2. Port Management
Richard D. Stewart
3. Privatization of Roadways
Lei Zhang and Dilya Askaroff
4. International Transportation Management
Darren Prokop
5. Technology Use in Transportation Management
Morgan Henrie
6. Contracting, Negotiations, and Legal Issues in Transportation
Henry E. Seaton
7. Special Interest Groups in Transportation
Brian Everett
8. Transportation Deregulation: Productivity and Cost Patterns in Trucking, Airlines, and Rail
John Bitzan and James Peoples
9. Transportation and Supply Chain Security
Darren Prokop
10. The Environment and Transportation
Darren Prokop
Glossary
About the Editor and Contributors
Index
1. Airport Management: Facilitating the Business of Air Transportation
Seth Young
2. Port Management
Richard D. Stewart
3. Privatization of Roadways
Lei Zhang and Dilya Askaroff
4. International Transportation Management
Darren Prokop
5. Technology Use in Transportation Management
Morgan Henrie
6. Contracting, Negotiations, and Legal Issues in Transportation
Henry E. Seaton
7. Special Interest Groups in Transportation
Brian Everett
8. Transportation Deregulation: Productivity and Cost Patterns in Trucking, Airlines, and Rail
John Bitzan and James Peoples
9. Transportation and Supply Chain Security
Darren Prokop
10. The Environment and Transportation
Darren Prokop
Glossary
About the Editor and Contributors
Index
