Freight Transport Centres
Abbreviation: RTC Load: 30(L) + 0(E) + 0(LE) + 15(S) + 0(FLE) + 0(PEE)
Lecturers in charge: dr. sc. Tomislav Josip Mlinarić
Tomislav Rožić
Lecturers: izv. prof. dr. sc. Ratko Stanković ( Lectures )
Matea Mikulčić mag. ing. traff. ( Seminar )
doc. Tomislav Rožić ( Seminar )
Course description: General concepts of freight-transport centers in the rationalization of transport and storage capacities. Structure of goods and transport flows and their influence on the formation of freight-transport centers. Types of freight-transport centers. Functions and organization of freight-transport centers. Freight-transport centers managing models. Criteria and factors to determine the location of freight-transport centers. Freight-transport centers mathematical location methods. Methodologies to determine gravitational zones and development function of freight-transport centers. Spatial geographical features of freight-transport centers microlocations and gravitational zones. Economic development of freight-transport centers micro-locations and gravitational zones. Traffic and technical factors of freight-transport centers micro-location and wider gravitational zone. The economic assessment for construction of freight-transport centers. Dimensioning of freight-transport centers. Preliminary solutions in formation of freight-transport centers.
Lecture languages: en, hr
Compulsory literature:
1. Mlinarić, T.J.: Robno transportni centri, Sveučilište u Zagrebu, Fakultet prometnih znanosti, Zagreb, 2015.
Recommended literature:
2. Ivaković, Č., Stanković, R., Šafran, M.: Špedicija i logistički procesi, Sveučilište u Zagrebu, Fakultet prometnih znanosti, Zagreb, 2010.
3. Zečević, S.: Robni terminali i robno-transportni centri, Saobraćajni fakultet Univerziteta u Beogradu, Beograd, 2006.
4. Rodrigue, J.P., Comtois, C., Slack, B.: The Geography of Transport System, Third Edition, Routledge, 2013.
Legend
L - Lectures
E - Exercises
LE - Laboratory exercises
S - Seminar
FLE - Practical foreign language exercises
PEE - Physical education excercises
* - Not graded