The logistics and transportation industry pervades nearly every area of our lives because virtually everything we use or consume had to be transported to us in some manner, through some aspect of today’s transportation system. The transportation system is made up of a network of highways, pipelines, rail transit, and waterways over which it moves goods and people. It links natural resources, manufacturing facilities, labor markets, and customers across the United States as well as with international sources. This course provides an overview of the transportation industry and its subsectors of the transportation industry both in the present and future.

Upon completion, students will be able to:

• identify the entities that regulate various aspects of the transportation system;
• identify the loss exposures that shippers and transportation companies face;
• recognize the types of insurance that can be used to insure transportation loss exposures; and
• identify some current and emerging innovations likely to affect the transportation industry