Β3: Transportation Management

Lecturers: V. Profyllidis .
Academic Credits: 3.

Description:
The different systems of the transportation sector. Road, railway, air, and ocean transportation. The transportation market - Demand and Supply - Elasticities. Demand forecasting models. Transportation planning - General and operational plans for development of transportation businesses. Costs and prices of transportation services. Transportation and economic and regional development. Investment appraisal for transportation infrastructure projects. The European Union transportation policy - competition or interoperability of transportation systems. Models for the management of transportation businesses - Privatization - The cases of Olympic Airways and private airline companies, ocean transportation companies, urban and suburban bus companies, the greek railroad company, taxis. Transportation and the environment - Environmental impact studies in the infrastructure and transportation sector.