Transportation Operation Systems

What is NOT a mode of transportation

• Sea
• Air
• Warehouse
• Rail

What is NOT an advantage of Air transport?

• high capacity
• fast
• flexibility
• international

What is an example of intermodal transport?

• The use of trains
• Changing from Rail to Sea transport
• Switching the driver

What is NOT an advantage of Rail transport?

• reliability
• high capacity
• flexibility

What is NOT an advantage of Road transport?

• capable of local delivery
• flexible
• High capacity

What is Dispatch?

• Procedure for assigning employees or vehicles to customers
• Procedure for assigning names to boxes.
• Procedure for assigning prices to goods.

What is NOT a characteristic that may affect routing and scheduling?

• size of the fleet
• mood of the driver
• capacities of the vehicles
• routing and scheduling objectives

What is a distribution center used for?

• It is used to carry goods to retailers, wholesalers or consumers.
• It is stocked with goods to be redistributed to retailers, wholesalers or consumers
• It is used to sell goods to retailers, wholesalers or consumers.

Name 3 systems that may be included in a Transport Operation

• fatigue management, dispatch, routing and scheduling
• wet storage, hot storage, road storage
• Sea, Rail and Air storage

What is NOT a type of container?

• ISO standard
• Pallets
• Warehouse
• TEU (20ft)