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Freight transportation is an important part of the technology, for transportation equipment, transportation as such, or the organization of transport consumption in logistics organizations. It is an industrial process whose value contributes to the total value of the product. Transportation is a complex system involving a large number of agents: infrastructure managers, carriers, shippers, freight-forwarders, etc. Organized in networks, transportation is also a social activity, with powerful external effects. Public authorities play an important role in the organization and regulation of transportation.
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Michel SAVY: Professor at Université Paris Est (École d'urbanisme de Paris and École des ponts – ParisTech) - Director of the Observatory of Transport Policies and Strategies in Europe
INTRODUCTION
Freight transport is a major branch of technology, for the production of transport equipment, for transport as such, or for its consumption in logistics organizations. It is an industrial process whose value contributes to the total value of the product.
Transport is a complex system involving many agents:
infrastructure manager ;
carrier ;
charger ;
freight forwarder, etc.
It is organized into networks.
Transport is a social activity, with powerful external effects. Public authorities play an important role in organizing and regulating transport, and transport policy affects the private management of transport operations.
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transports | logistics
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