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Transportation Logistics in The Usa
Transportation Logistics in The Usa
Mazen Al Suwaidi
Diego T. de Sa
Suliman Alhamidi
Fernando Ramos
Transportation
Transportation is the physical movement of goods and
people between two points.
Each of the five modes of transportation exists because of
certain attributes that provide one or more advantages
over the other modes of transportation. The attractiveness
of a particular mode depends on the following attributes:
cost, speed, reliability, capability, capacity, and flexibility.
Transportation Modes
Airfreight
Motor Carrier
Ocean Transportation
Railroad
Pipeline
Airfreight
Air is generally the fastest mode of transportation for
shipments exceeding 600 miles. Air Cargo comprises a
large number of daily flights in the United States and
are operated by private parcel companies such as
FedEx and UPS.
Air Freight Capabilities
Wearing apparel
Electronics
Printed matter
Machinery and parts
Cut flowers and nursery stock
Auto parts and accessories
Fruits and vegetables
Metal products
Photographic equipment
Airfreight Advantages
Make up lost time
Perishable products
Urgent deliveries
Airfreight Disadvantages
Expensive
Line-haul cost of airfreight service
Transportation cost
Transit time
Increasing handling costs
Increasing loss and damage
Belly freight
Motor Carrier (trucks)
The trucking industry provides an essential service to
the American economy by transporting large
quantities of raw materials, works in process, and
finished goods over land, typically from
manufacturing plants to retail distribution centers.
Motor Carrier Advantages
Flexibility
Ability to deliver the product to the customer
Motor Carrier Disadvantages
Limitations by highway weight and size.
Speed limitations and hours-of-service (HOS) rules.
Highway congestion
The Classifications of Motor
Carriers
Less than truckload (LTL) - The shipments range
from about 150 to 10,000 pounds.
LTL carriers include Yellow Freight, Roadway, FedEx
Freight, and ABF Freight System.
The Classifications of Motor
Carriers
Truckload (TL) - The shipments range grater than
10,000 pounds.
TL traffic involve only one customer Prominent TL
carriers include Schneider National, J.B. Hunt, Swift
Transportation, and Werner Enterprises.
Motor Carrier Delay
Motor Carrier Delay
Weather considerations include fog, snow, flooding,
and high winds.
Highway congestion which caused by increased travel
demand include disabled vehicle, accident, and
construction.
Cargo Ships
Source: TRANSEARCH
Rail Types of Freight Services
Bulk Unit Train
Moves very high volumes of a single commodity
Coal, grain, minerals and waste
One way (shipper to receiver)
Mixed Carload
Moves a diverse range of commodities.
Chemicals, food products, forest products, metals, auto parts, waste
and scrap.
One way (shipper to receiver)
Intermodal (container, trailer and automobile)
Moves truck trailers
Almost anything that can be pack in a truck or container like: finished
consumer goods, refrigerated foods, tools and parts for manufacturing
and raw materials.
Two way
Example of Bulk Unit Train
Example of Carload Train
Example of Intermodal Train
Railroads Advantages
Rail adds transportation system capacity and reduces
highway costs
Rail promotes economic development and
productivity
Rail supports international trade
Rail is more fuel efficient and generates less air
pollution per ton mile than trucks
Rail improves safety and security by offering a
naturally separated right-of-way for freight.
Reduces truck travel, congestions, and highway costs.
Railroads Disadvantages
Railroads currently are used primarily to haul bulk
quantities of cargo and intermodal containers over
long distances. Unless a manufacturing facility has a
direct connection to the railroad, the remainder of the
trip must be handled by truck. With today's demand
for “just in time” freight, shipment by rail sometimes
cannot meet the rapid and flexible demands of
industry.
Pipelines
One of the advancements humans have made in
recent history is the ability to transport liquids and
gases via the use of pipelines. Pipelines decrease both
the amount of time and labor it would take to
displace a liquid or gas from one destination to
another.
Basic Facts
Roughly 200,000 miles of liquid pipeline in the
United States.
Size from 3 to 48 inch, Lengths 1 to 2000 miles.
Constructed mainly of carbon steel
What Pipelines Move
Crude Oil as raw materials (onshore and offshore)
Intermediates/ Chemicals from one location to
another in manufacturing
CO2 for Enhanced Oil Recovery
Finished products- gasoline, diesel, jut fuel, etc.