EFFECT FROM THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2013 - 2014

AE 402

TRANSPORT MANAGEMENT

Instruction                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          4   Periods per week

Duration of University Examination                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  3   Hours

University Examination                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      75  Marks

Sessional                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              25 Marks

UNIT-I

Introduction: Personnel management; objectives and functions of personnel management, psychology, sociology and their relevance to organization, personality problems. Selection process: job

description, employment tests, interviewing, introduction to training objectives, advantages, methods of training, training procedure, psychological tests.

UNIT-II

Transport Systems: Introduction to various transport systems. Advantages of motor transport. Principal function of administrative, traffic, secretarial and engineering divisions, chain of responsibility, forms of ownership by state, municipality, public body and private undertakings.

UNIT-III

Scheduling and Fare Structure: Principal features of operating costs for transport vehicles with examples of estimating the costs. Fare structure and method of drawing up of a fare table. Various

types of fare collecting methods. Basic factors of bus scheduling. Problems on bus scheduling.

UNIT-IV

Motor Vehicle Act: Traffic signs, fitness certificate, registration requirements, permit insurance, constructional regulations, description of vehicle-tankers, tippers, delivery vans, recovery vans, Power wagons and fire fighting vehicles. Spread over, running time, test for competence to drive.

UNIT-V

Maintenance: Preventive maintenance system in transport industry, tyre maintenance procedures. Causes for uneven tyre wear; remedies, maintenance procedure for better fuel economy, Design of bus depot layout.

Suggested Reading :

 1.John Duke, Fleet Management - McGraw-Hill Co, USA -1984.

 2.Government Motor Vehicle Act - Eastern Book Company, Lucknow 1989.

 3.Kitchin.L.D., Bus Operation - Illiffee and Sons Co., London, III edition- 1992.

 4.Ejaz Ahernad, The motor vehicle Act 1939, Ashok Law House, India, 1989.