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1. Transport and logistics
Logistics is now one of the major functions around which the organization and operation of companies are structured.
1.1 Definitions. Logistics approach
Academic and professional definitions of logistics are numerous and disparate. Most are relevant, but refer to a particular aspect of the question, unless we define logistics, not by its substantive content, but by its very general aims ("making the right product available, in the right place and at the right time, at the lowest cost").
Other key words in the transport vocabulary are also polysemous: as we have seen with "freight", we can easily see with "network". The multiple meanings of the word logistics have emerged over time, and a chronological taxonomy can be drawn up....
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Bibliography
Digital media
Service de l'observation et des statistiques (SOeS), Chiffres clés du transport, Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development, Transport and Housing, 2012.
Service de l'observation et des statistiques (SOeS), Memento de statistiques des transports, downloadable :
Regulations
• Directive 1991/440/EEC of July 29, 1991 on the development of the Community's railroads.
• Directive 1996/71/EC of December 16, 1996 concerning the posting of workers in the framework of the provision of services.
• Directive 2002/15/EC of March 11, 2002 on the organization of the working time of persons performing mobile road transport activities.
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