2024-2025 Catalog 
    
    Oct 31, 2024  
2024-2025 Catalog

LOG 125 Transportation Logistics

Lecture: 3 Lab: 0 Clinic: 0 Credits: 3
This course covers the role and importance of the transportation industry. This is an overview of transportation emphasizing its environmental and sociological aspects, economic impact, services, regulatory guidelines, policies, and its future. Upon completion, students should be able to identify modes of transportation, interpret governing regulations, and describe the principles and terminology used in the transportation industry.

Course is typically offered in Fall.
Course has transfer restrictions - 10 years

Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs)
At the completion of the course, the students should be able to do the following:

  1. Demonstrate the principles of transportation management as they impact Logistics functions.
  2. Analyze motor carrier transportation’s competitive position in the marketplace.
  3. Analyze rail transportation’s competitive position in the marketplace.
  4. Analyze air transportation’s competitive position in the marketplace.
  5. Analyze water transportation’s competitive position in the marketplace.
  6. Analyze transportation costs.
  7. Determine shipping strategies that have a positive impact on the global supply chain.