Unit 14. Transportation Management

Lead in

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a) Transportation Management - the process of ensuring that passengers and freight are provided with the services they need and are delivered to the right place, at the right time, after the highest possible quality journey and at the right price.

b) National and local government, Passenger transport companies – all modes: road, rail, air and sea, Construction companies, Freight transport companies – all modes: road, rail, air, sea and inland waterways, Travel and tourist companies, Utilities companies, Seaports and airports, Public sector – armed services, National Health Service, Supermarkets and retailers, Manufacturing companies, Specialist consultancies.

e) value, destination,weight, size, dimentions, type of goods, infrastructure, time factor/speed/urgency, nature of the goods, security.

Vocabulary

2

1. g; 2. d; 3. f; 4. i; 5. a; 6. j; 7. e; 8. b; 9. h; 10. c.

3

1. reefer containers; 2. open-top containers; 3. pipelines; 4. quay; 5. block train; 6. piggybacking; 7. motor lorries; 8. rigid box

4

1. e; 2. g; 3. h; 4. f; 5. a; 6. c; 7. b; 8. d

5

1. bogie; 2. lashing rings; 3. open-top container; 4.reefer; 5.break-bulk; 6.pile; 7. transtainer; 8. block-train

Reading 1

A

Road transportation: t, d, j. 2. Rail transportation: g, c, s. 3. Pipelines: w, n, b. 4. Maritime transportation: v, u, l, k, g. 5. Air transportation: g, m, i. 6. Intermodal transportation: e, a, f. 7. Telecommunications: p, o, r.

C

1. k; 2. m; 3. o; 4. n; 5. i; 6. q; 7. g; 8. h; 9. e; 10. f; 11. a; 12. l; 13. b; 14. p; 15. c; 16. d; 17. j.

D

1. b; 2. a; 3. e; 4. g; 5. f; 6. c; 7. d.

E

1. into; 2. on; 3. to; 4. in; 5. in; 6. to; 7. on; 8. for; 9. for.

F

1. to transport, transport, transportation, transporting, transported; 2. to contain, containerization, container, containership, contained, containerized; 3. to compose, composer, composite, compositor, composition, composed, composite; 4. to improve, improvement, improvability, improver, improved, improving, improvable; 5. to construct; construction, construct; constructive; 6. to discontinue, discontinuance, discontinuity, discontinuous; 7. to accommodate, accommodation, accommodationist, accommodating.

Grammar

1. nothing; 2. anything; 3. someone; 4. anything; 5. something; 6. everybody; 7. anybody; 8. anybody; 9. somewhere; 10. anything; 11. Anybody; 12. anybody; 13. anything; 14. somewhere; 15. somebody.

2.

1. itself, yourself; 2. ourselves; 3. each other; 4. -; 5. yourself, yourself; 6. themselves; 7. -; 8. themselves; 9. herself; 10. each other.

3.

1. his, it; 2. It, there; 3. it, there; 4. ours, them, him; 5. It, it, It; 6.There; 7. its; 8. There; it.

Reading 2

D

Sample synonyms: 1. hub – center; 2. incentive – encouragement; 3. to reduce – drop; 4. regulation – law; 5. investment – capital; 6. employment - application; 7. innovation – new idea; 8. to feature – to emphasize; 9. various – different; 10. to ensure – to guarantee; 11. to expand – to extend; 12. facility – establishment.

E

1. i, 2. k, 3. e, 4. a, 5. c, 6. b, 7. g, 8. j, 9. d, 10. h, 11. f.

F

1. out; 2. as, to; 3. for; 4. after; 5. on; 6. for.

G

1. to commerce, commercialize, commerce, commercialism, commercial; 2. to limit, limitation, limitative, limited, limiting; 3. to innovate, innovation, innovative; 4. to establish, establishment, establishmentarian, established, establishing; 5. to invest, investor, investment; 6. to equip, equipment.