Freight Transport and the Modern Economy adapts a well-known
textbook by Michel Savy, revising, extending and updating it for
British, European and international readers. It deals not only with
the technical aspects of transport, logistics and supply chain
management, but also the interactions between transport
professionals and the public authorities in the modern social,
political, economic and environmental context. The transport of
freight is presented as a system, mixing empirics and theory,
showing how transport itself functions and also its strong
influence on the modern economy, with a growing volume of
production, turnover and employment. The nature of freight
transport, an industrial process widely marketed as a service, is
analysed in depth, explaining the main characteristics of the
transport operation, its market and the regulatory context. The
main actors, the professional actors (carriers, shippers and other
agents) and the public authorities are introduced, and their
behaviour and interactions are clarified. This comprehensive
approach allows the reader to go further and consider in particular
the approaches and practices of transport by carriers, customers,
logistics managers, political decision makers and citizens, to
tackle long range issues such as the 'decoupling' of production and
transport recommended by some institutions and experts, and to
explore the need for more infrastructure, or the capacity of the
freight transport industry to reduce its contribution to pollution
and climate change. This book treats freight transport as a whole
system in its technical, economic, social, political and
environmental context, in contrast to existing transport literature
focused on individual aspects, such as transportation planning
(usually for cars or passengers), logistics (essentially management
issues), or individual transport modes. This book is comprehensive
in its treatment of freight transport and in its use of multiple
disciplinary perspectives.
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