COMPONENTS
Chapter 2. Transportation System
• Physical System
• Management
• Labor
Internal
Components Physical Components
Physical
• Infrastructure (guideway, terminals and
Components
stations)
Management • Vehicles
• Power Systems
• Fuel
Labor • Control, Communications and Locations
Systems
Infrastructure
• Guideways : special • Terminals/Stations
purpose vs general - Rail freight yards
purpose
- Container port
- highway
- Airports
- Railroad
- Bus stations
- Pipeline
- Transit stations
- Air corridors
- Street corner bus
stops/taxi stands
Vehicles
• Automobiles
• Rail Locomotives
• Airplanes
• Tractor Trailer
• Truck Trailers
• Railroad Cars
• Containers
Vehicles Characteristics
• Crashworthiness
• Degree of Automation
• Energy Source : Internal vs External
• Weight
• Material
• Aerodynamics
• Emissions
Equipment
Physical
Components
• Marketing : what do costumer want?
• Intramodal
Management
• Intermodal
• Intersectoral (eg. Transportation vs. communication)
Labor
Management
• Planning
• Strategic planning (eg. Building the network, buying the vehicles)
• Operations planning (eg. Creating an operations plan)
• Operations
• NB: Distinct from opertions planning (eg. actually running the system)
Management
• Maintenance management
• Information Management
• Operations Research
• Administration
Cost/Level-of-Service Trade-Off
• Fare collectors
Labor • Mechanics
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