COURSE UNIT TITLE

: LOGISTICS PLANNING IN URBAN AREAS

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
LOG 5015 LOGISTICS PLANNING IN URBAN AREAS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

Offered to

Logistics Engineering (Non-Thesis-Evening)
Logistics Engineering

Course Objective

Services of logistics and procurement are emerging as a result of necessities for mutual relations of production and consumption. These relations have global dimensions and peculiarities depending upon parameters of time and space. Therefore the related planning activities of such services highly depend on solving the problems of quite a complicated system. The tremendous changes in economical and the social structure, in addition to the political alteration, cause the increase of this complexity. Performances related to fulfil such services have the criterion of adequacy, sustainability, timing and replacement as the basic general regulations. Also it is inevitable that such services are both act under the roles public and private responsibilities. In addition to that, distribution of these services depend also the scale and hierarchy of settlements. Therefore planning activities for logistics and procurement, depend upon the analysis of varying ways of approaching to design related systems and to solve the related problems. This course in general together with the emergence of urban spatial organization, also by evaluating the existence of infrastructure, tries to differentiate logistic and procurement systems, explain their importance, to define their problems and helps scholars in gaining capabilities and knowledge for the ways out.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Will be able to define all the analytical aspects and interrelations of procurement and logistics in urban areas networks (Analysis)
2   Will be able to define analyze the problems of these systems within the framework of urban and regional context (Knowledge)
3   Will be able to interpret and evaluate the methodologies and techniques in solving the related problems in urban areas (Application)
4   Will be able to comprehend the analytical solutions and alternative behaviors (Perception).
5   Will be able to face with the all developments and proposals for solving the problems taken provisionally in technical, political, economical, financial, legislative and administrative contexts (Synthesis)

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction, course objective, content
2 General information about the planning procedure and decision process
3 Administrative systems
4 Theoretical structure of planning systems and hierarchical order
5 Defining the space, economical, social and physical aspects of space
6 Production and consumption. Changes in the relations of production and consumption utilities. Changes depending upon technology. Historical perspectives
7 Transportation and accessibility. Classification of transportation systems with regards to the procurement and logistics
8 Mid-Term Exam
9 Urbanization in terms of economical, social and the spatial aspects
10 Regional development. Urban and regional pattern
11 Interrelations of urban and regional physical structure with procurement and logistic services. Norms and standards of logistic services
12 Optimization of procurement and logistics in urban and regional context, design alternatives and decision criterion
13 General Evaluations
14 General Evaluations

Recomended or Required Reading

Wilson, A.G., Urban and Regional Models in Geography and Planning, John Wiley & Sons- London, 1975.
Isard, W., Methods of Regional Analysis, MIT Press Massachusetts, 1969.
Berry, Brian JL.,Horton, Frank H., Geographical Perspectives on Urban Systems, Prentice Hall Inc., New Jersey, 1970.
Can, Prof. Dr., Organizasyon ve Organizasyon ve Yönetim, Adım yayıncılık, Ankara, 1992.
Pekin, Tevfik., Ekonomiye Giriş, Zeus Kitapevi, Izmir, 2005.
Kobu, Prof. Dr. Bülent, Üretim Yönetimi, Avcıol Basım Yayın, Istanbul, 1998.
Oral, Yıldırım, Ulaşım Ekonomisinde Temel Kavramlar ve Şehir Planlamada Kullanımı, Mimarlık Fak. Yayını, Izmir, 2000.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

This course will be given through lectures and the students will learn by attending and conceiving the lectures. Besides the midterm and final examinations, students will be asked to prepare homework and to participate in the lecture.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.30 +ASG * 0.20 +FIN * 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + ASG * 0.20 + RST * 0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

This course will be given through lectures, homework practices and seminar discussions over home works, problem definitions and proposals.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

yildirim.oral@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Tuesday 08.30-10.30; Thursday 09.30-11.30

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 6 72
Preparation for midterm exam 1 8 8
Preparation for final exam 1 8 8
Preparing assignments 1 6 6
Preparing presentations 2 6 12
Final 1 3 3
Midterm 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 151

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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