Transportation With InfoTrack

by John J. Coyle, Edward J. Bardi

This text is intended to help students understand both the fundamental role and importance of transportation in companies and in our society, and the complex environment in which transportation service is provided today. The authors take a managerial approach to teaching transportation concepts and issues, providing students the tools to adapt to this fast-paced and rapidly changing industry. The text is organized into three parts. Part I contains two chapters, Transportation, the Supply Chain and the Economy and Transportation Regulation and Public Policy. In these two chapters the role and importance of transportation in the supply chain management and the economy are explored along with an overview of transportation regulation and public policy. Part II addresses the traditional modes of transportation including special carriers and global transportation. There are six chapters that examine the fundamental economic and operating characteristics of each mode along with special carriers and global transportation. Part III discusses transportation management from both the shipper and carrier perspective. The five chapters give attention to transportation costing and pricing, carrier strategy, information management and technology, and shipper transportation management strategy and process.

512 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1982

Reviews

[Jim · Rating 1 out of 5]

I don't recommend this book. I used it as a basis for teaching a Transportation Management course and after chapter 4 gave up and created my own material while looking for a new book.
As an industry professional with 30 years of experience, I found the book to be out of touch with modern transportation theory and practice. It has a heavy slant to pre-deregulatory transportation and did a poor job of explaining in clear and simple terms how modern transportation works. It did not provide a very dynamic supply chain perspective and was extremely difficult to get good data from for presentation purposes. Student uniformly found the book difficult to read, extremely difficult to understand and impossible to apply.

[Joe Cole · Rating 5 out of 5]

I would definitely recommend this book to other to learn more about the transportation. Very informative.

[Kelley · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked the real-world stories, but having to read it in one month and all I thought about was reading it for a deadline made me enjoy it less for sure