Transport Control Systems (5 cr)

Evaluation scale

0-5

Objective

The students understand the significance of control systems in modern networked business operations. The students can organize and classify the characteristics and applications areas of different control systems. The students understand how the systems are connected to each other and how transports are managed in networked business operations. The students can use different design systems and they recognize their possibilities in strategic, tactic and operative levels. The students can analyze the implementation and the schedule of a transport with transport’s information systems.

Content

Lecture part which introduces:
- design levels
- viewpoints of transport providers and users
- general characteristics of operations management systems
- characteristics and division of design systems
- spatial data system
- GPS and data-transmission systems
- equipment management system and driver resources management
- measuring and defining the amount of transport equipment by software
Use of software
SAP, transport provider’s operations management system, ArcGIS, Network Analyst, Route map Suomi Plus, optimization program What’s Best or equivalent, ED simulation program, Dynafleet database program or equivalent
Excursions to transport companies
GPS and laboratory work of data transfer and equipment management
Transport economy

Location and time

Kevät 2022 JAMK Rajakadun pääkampus / etäluentoja

Materials

Opintojaksokuvauksen mukainen kirjallisuus. Moodlen kautta jaettava materiaali sekä omatoimiseen tiedonhankintaan perustuvat lähdemateriaalit.

Teaching methods

Opintojakso sisältää luentoja, itseopiskelua, verkko-opintoja ja pienryhmä-työskentelyä. Opintojaksolla suoritetaan harjoitustöitä ja oppimistehtäviä.

Employer connections

Kurssilla on vierailijaluennoitsijoita logistiikan alalta.

Exam schedules

Toteutustapa ilmoitetaan opintojakson avausinfossa.

Completion alternatives

Hyväksilukemisen menettelytavat kuvataan tutkintosäännössä ja opinto-oppaassa. Opintojakson opettaja antaa lisätietoa mahdollisista opintojakson erityiskäytänteistä.

Student workload

Lähipäivät tai verkkotapaamiset n.24h itsenäinen työskentely ja ryhmätyöt n.111 h Yhteensä 135 h

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Satisfactory (1-2)
The students skills have developed in a satisfactory way and they pass the assignments satisfactorily by using different methods to some extent and they apply the characteristics of software satisfactorily. Not enough participation. Theoretical background is understood satisfactorily.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

Good (3) The students’ skills have developed well and they make the assignments well by using enough different methods and by applying the characteristics of software well. Active participation. Theoretical background is well understood.

Very good (4) The students’ skills have developed very well and they make the assignments very well by using sufficiently different methods and by applying the characteristics of software very well. Active participation. Theoretical background is very well understood.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

Excellent (5) The students’ skills have developed at an excellent level and they make the assignments skillfully by using good methods and applying excellently the characteristics of software. Active participation. Theoretical background is understood excellently.

Qualifications

Principles of forming an information system, office applications, mathematics, methods of operational analysis, basics of logistics