Cracow, Poland

Transport and Logistics

Bachelor's - engineer
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⇑Transport and Logistics at PK Kraków

Language: EnglishStudies in English
Subject area: engineering and engineering trades
Kind of studies: full-time studies, part-time studies

⇑Test: Is Transport and Logistics the right fit for you?

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10 questions · two minutes

1. You’re organising a class trip to several cities. How do you go about it?

2. You order a parcel and track it online. What interests you about it?

3. How do you get on with maths, especially optimisation problems and estimating?

4. Classes, case studies and group projects will all be in English, in a group of students from many countries. How does that sound?

5. In a holiday job at a shop, you notice the shelves often run empty while the stockroom is full. What do you do?

6. Someone says moving freight by rail instead of by lorry is a good idea. What do you think?

7. During a school event you’re helping to organise, an equipment delivery runs late. How do you react?

8. What tools do you like to use for planning?

9. What kind of work can you see yourself doing in future?

10. What motivates you most to study Transport and Logistics?

⇑Definitions and quotes

Logistics
Logistics is generally the detailed organization and implementation of a complex operation. In a general business sense, logistics is the management of the flow of things between the point of origin and the point of consumption in order to meet requirements of customers or corporations. The resources managed in logistics can include physical items such as food, materials, animals, equipment, and liquids; as well as abstract items, such as time and information. The logistics of physical items usually involves the integration of information flow, materials handling, production, packaging, inventory, transportation, warehousing, and often security.
Transport
Transport or transportation is the movement of humans, animals and goods from one location to another. Modes of transport include air, land (rail and road), water, cable, pipeline and space. The field can be divided into infrastructure, vehicles and operations. Transport is important because it enables trade between people, which is essential for the development of civilizations.
Transport
I can transport matter — anything — at the speed of light, perfectly. Of course this is only a crude beginning, but I've stumbled on the most important discovery since man sawed off the end of a tree trunk and found the wheel. The disintegrator-integrator will change life as we know it. Think what it means. Anything, even humans, will go through one of these devices. No need for cars or railways or airplanes, even spaceships. We'll set up matter-receiving stations throughout the world, and later the universe. There'll never be famine. Surpluses can be sent instantaneously at almost no cost, anywhere. Humanity need never want or fear again. I'm a very fortunate man, Hélène.
James Clavell The Fly (1958) André Delambre (David Hedison) to his wife Hélène
Transport
Without an understanding of causality there can be no theory of communication. What passes as information theory today is not communication at all, but merely transportation.
Marshall McLuhan (2011) The Book of Probes : Marshall McLuhan. p. 362
Transport
The essence of air transport is speed, and speed is unfortunately one of the most expensive commodities in the world, principally because of the disproportionate amount of the power required to achieve high speed and to lift loads thousands of feet into the air. This is strikingly illustrated by the fact that while an average cargo ship, freight train and transport aeroplane are each equipped with engines totalling about 2,500 H.P., the ship can carry a load of about 7,000 tons, the train 800 tons and the plane only two and a half tons.
J. R. D. Tata 'On November 2, 1943, J.R.D. Tata spoke to the Bombay Rotary Club.
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