Frontier Comprehensive Transportation and Logistics is an international online course launched by Chang’an University. This course is mainly applicable to undergraduate and graduate students majoring in transportation, logistics engineering and logistics management. The main contents of this course include overview of comprehensive transportation and modern logistics, comprehensive transportation organization and management, road transportation safety, intelligent transportation system (ITS), supply chain management and some new emerging technologies, such as big data analytics, artificial intelligence, blockchain in the fields of transportation and logistics.
Overview
Syllabus
- Chapter 1 Overview of comprehensive transportation and modern logistics
- 1.1 What is comprehensive transportation?
- 1.2 Modern logistics frontier technology
- Chapter 2 Comprehensive transportation organization and management
- 2.1 Overview of comprehensive transportation system
- 2.2 Transportation management mode
- 2.3 Countermeasures for coordinated transportation development
- Chapter 3 Transportation and Logistics Cooperation of the Belt and Road
- 3.1 What is the Belt and Road?
- 3.2 The construction of modern comprehensive transportation
- 3.3 Landmark achievements of “ the Belt and Road”
- Chapter 4 New technology of modern road transportation safety
- 4.1 Analysis of relevant factors of road transportation
- 4.2 Transportation safety status
- 4.3 Speed limit and light highway
- 4.4 Application of modern information technology
- Chapter 5 Intelligent Transportation System
- 5.1 Motivation of ITS
- 5.2 What is ITS
- 5.3 Main application of ITS
- Chapter 6 Big data analytics in logistics
- 6.1 Understanding big data
- 6.2 Logistics and big data are perfect match
- 6.3 Big data in logistics
- Chapter 7 Demand forecast
- 7.1 Why forecast?- Two SC strategies
- 7.2 Forecast principles and Time series methods
- 7.3 Moving average and exponential smoothing methods
- Chapter 8 Application of artificial intelligence (AI) in logistics
- 8.1 Introduction to AI
- 8.2 Application of AI in logistics
- Chapter 9 Logistics facilities location & distribution optimization
- 9.1 Motivation and problem description
- 9.2 Modeling
- 9.3 Exact algorithms for distribution optimization
- 9.4 Heuristic algorithms for distribution optimization
- 9.5 Overview of solving methods for facility location
- 9.6 Mathematical programming approach
- 9.7 Heuristic algorithms for facility location
- Chapter 10 Application of Self-driving in Logistics
- 10.1 Introduction of self-driving and VICS
- 10.2 Application of self-driving and VICS in logistics
- Chapter 11 Supply Chain Management
- 11.1 What is supply chain?
- 11.2 Two SCM framework and SC optimization
- 11.3 Logistics, transportation and SCM
- 11.4 Case of SCM: Hair
- Chapter 12 Blockchain in Logistics
- 12.1 What is blockchain and how its technology works?
- 12.2 Application of the blockchain in logistics
- Chapter 13 Multimode transport system
- 13.1 Combined transport and multimodal transport
- 13.2 International multimodal transport
Taught by
Hu Hui, Xiao Mei, Gao Yang, Yan Ying, Xu Ting, and Chen Xiqiong
