Air transportation is when goods are transported using transport aircraft or in cargo compartments under the floor in passenger aircraft. Brief description The origins of air transport as a commercial mode of transportation took place in the 1950s and 1960s, when the use of aircraft for international cargo transportation began after World War II. This type of means [...]
Intermodal transport describes the use of different transportation systems to organize a single transport. Brief description In intermodal transport, at least two modes of transport are used. The change of means of transport by the goods always takes place in closed containers or units in such a way that the shipment cannot be split. Various constraints (geographical conditions, costs, etc.), such as customer requirements [...]
The term corporate transportation describes transportation within the spatially limited boundaries of a company, producers or sellers of their own products. Brief description This classic concept of company transportation is intra-company transportation that does not take place on public roads. Good examples are forklifts transporting goods on company premises or tankers used at airports supplying aircraft with fuel. RELATED CONTRACTS Transportation [...]
By bimodal transportation we mean the use of two transportation branches to carry out a single shipment. Brief description Bimodal transports use two different modes of transportation to take advantage of synergies and reduce costs. Classic examples are bimodal trailers suitable for rail and road transport and shipping containers, which can also be transported on truck platforms. RELATED CONTRACTS Intermodal transportation [...]
Commercial traffic so-called „on the ram” (also called RoLa or “moving road”) is a variant of combined transport of goods. In this case, road-moving vehicles (mostly tractor-trailers, semi-trailers and others) or containers are transported by train or inland waterway. Brief description In this variant of transport (piggy-back), entire road vehicles and transport units [...]
Tracking & Tracing describes an electronic tracking system for goods. Using the shipment number (bill of lading number, B/L number, etc.), you can get up-to-date data about the shipment online. Brief description Tracking means to determine the current status (status, location) of the goods. Tracking is referred to when it is possible to reconstruct the exact course of a shipment ex post with all important events. [...]
The TQM system is a management philosophy in which all thinking and action is focused on the quality of the enterprise's achievements, and thus the optimal satisfaction of internal and external customer needs at low cost. This concept of quality is placed in the organization of construction and runs in the enterprise. The hallmark of TQM is the avoidance of errors through preventive action. CONCEPTS [...]
Toyota Production Systems, or TPS for short, defines a concept invented at the Toyota Group to increase the performance of all systems in a company by utilizing all employee potentials. Brief description TPS is understood as a management philosophy built on an „integrated transformation system” as well as a specific enterprise structure. The goal is the creative activation of employees combined with an increase in economic and benefit [...]
By fast-circulation goods are understood products with a high frequency of rotation, that is, per unit of time large quantities of them are reloaded. Due to the high frequency of reloading, these goods have a short run time and low storage risk. RELATED CONCEPTS Free circulation products Average percentage of storage time
Bulk goods are goods in particulate, granular, or dusty form of various sizes such as ores/coal, wood, sand/gravel, and grain. These goods change their form during the transportation process and cannot be collected without an auxiliary agent into a single unit. RELATED CONTRIBUTIONS Finished goods Collected goods