Safety in Transport and Logistics
Syllabus
- Definition and development of transport safety and security
- Factors and basics of transport safety research
- Factors that contribute to the emergence of transport accidents
- Characteristics of participants and their involvement in transport
- The impact of technical elements and specific measures on transport safety
- Designing elements of a transport system from a transport safety perspective
- Traffic security factors
- The concept, aspects and areas of protection in supply chains
- Education and training in the field of transport safety and security
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Goals and competencies
Course specific competences relate to the knowledge of the:
- basic characteristics and factors of transport safety and security,
- basic characteristics of safety and security in individual transport modes in land, water and air transport,
- basics of designing elements of the transport system from a transport safety perspective
- basics of the supply chains security
- basics of education and training in transport safety and security
Basic literature
- Dewar, R.E., Olson, P.L.: Human Factors in Traffic Safety, Lawyers & Judges Publishing Company, Inc., 2007, ISBN 1933264241
- Elvik, R., Vaa, T.: The Handbook of Road Safety Measures, Elsevier, 2004, 1078 str., ISBN 008‐044091‐6
- Edwards, F.L.: Introduction to Transportation Security, CRC Press, 2012, ISBN 143984576X
- Giermanski, J.: Global Supply Chain Security, Scarecrow Press, 2012, ISBN 0810886413