Courses Handbook 2009

11953 (v.3) Transport Economics 202


Area: School of Information Systems
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 3.0
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
Lecture: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s): 1234 (v.4) Economics 100 or any previous version
AND
11001 (v.3) Economics (Macro) 101 or any previous version
Syllabus: Transportation as part of the logistics process. Transport economic theory. Carriers - service, selection, pricing, freight and negotiation rates, liabilities, regulation and planning. Modes of transportation and the government's role. Intermodal transportation and systems - national and international. Transportation and Australia's economy. Trends in transportation technology. The goal of seamless transportation. Costing, pricing and investment policy.
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
Field of Education: 091900 Economics and Econometrics (Narrow Grouping)
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Not Online
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2009 UHK SPACE CIDP Trimester 1A Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

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