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1. Logistics Management
(Part of ORL)
BBA (Semester 4)
Faculty : Ravi Kumar Singh, International School of management Patna
Lecture-6 : Transportation

2. Lecture-5 : Transportation
Topics to be covered :
● Legal Grouping of Carriers
● Transportation Management Decisions
● Multimodal Transport
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3. Recap of Lecture-5
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1. Advantages and Disadvantages of
different modes of transportation.

4. Legal Grouping of Carriers
1. Public Carriers / Common Carriers
2. Private Carriers
3. Contract Carriers
4. Exempt Carriers

5. Transportation Management Decision
1. Decision regarding Means and Mode Decision
● Rationality-
○ Nature of consignment
○ Availability of route
○ Lead time
○ Speed Vs Cost
○ Requirement of control

6. Transportation Management Decision
2. Decision regarding Selection of Transporter
● Rationality-
○ Reliability or consistency
○ Service Vs Cost
○ Flexibility
○ Capability and Capacity

7. Multimodal Transportation
● Multimodal Transportation means
transportation of consignments under a single
contract, but performed with at least two
different modes of transportation.
● Objective is to reduce the limitation of single
mode.

8. Specific Multimodal Combinations

9. ● Legal Grouping of Transportation Vehicles
● Decision Dimensions of Transportation Management
● Multimodal Transportation
Summary of This Lecture