The course aims at understanding and providing in-depth knowledge for analysing, planning and evaluating the performance of “door-to-door” transport chains and logistics channels through an integrated approach. The course investigates the driving forces of transport systems’ organisation; it considers all transport modes and adopts an inter-disciplinary approach for the analysis of the transport market structure on the one hand and the decision-making procedures for modal choice and transport flow organisation on the other. The course deals with various components of a transport system, such as infrastructure, transport means, transport and logistics operations. It combines methodological tools related to transport economics, demand modelling, strategic and operational logistics, transport policy, based on both quantitative methods and qualitative approaches.
