Vehicle Transport Management detail syllabus for Automobile Engineering (Auto), 2017 scheme is taken from VTU official website and presented for VTU students. The course code (17AU552), and for exam duration, Teaching Hr/week, Practical Hr/week, Total Marks, internal marks, theory marks, duration and credits do visit complete sem subjects post given below.
For all other auto 5th sem syllabus for be 2017 scheme vtu you can visit Auto 5th Sem syllabus for BE 2017 Scheme VTU Subjects. For all other Professional Elective-1 subjects do refer to Professional Elective-1. The detail syllabus for vehicle transport management is as follows.
Course Objectives:
At the end of the course, students will be able to
- Introduce infrastructure required for Fleet operation and maintenance.
- Understand organizational structure and importance and methods of route planning.
- Analyze different methods of fare collection systems.
- Calculate fleet operating costs.
- Formulate different methods of accident prevention.
Module 1
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Module 2
Organization and Management: Forms of ownership, municipal undertaking, company undertaking, traffic, secretarial and engineering department, management, principle of transport, -internal organization-centralized control, de-centralized control, staff
administration: industrial relation, administration, recruitment and training, drivers and conductors duties, training of drivers and conductors, factors affecting punctuality, welfare, health and safety.
Route planning:
Source of traffic, town planning, turning points, stopping places, shelters, survey of route, preliminary schedule test runs, elimination of hazards, factors affecting frequency, direction of traffic flow, community of interest, estimating, traffic volume, probable weekday travelers, passengers during various periods of the day, estimated number of passengers, estimated traffic, possibility of single verses double deck and frequency.
Module 3
Fare collections & Fare structure:
Need, Principles of collection, tickets, the way bill, stage by stage, bell punch system, bell-graphic system, reduced ticket stocks will brew system, mechanical ticket machines, T.I.M and straight machines, Vero meter, one-man operation, two stream boarding, pre paid tickets, lensonparason coach tickets exchanges, the fare box, electronic ticket machines, box system personal and common stock flat fare platform control. Fare structure: Basis of fares, historical background, effects of competition and control, calculating average zone system, concession fares, straight and tapered scale elastic and inelastic demand co-ordination of fares concessions fares changes for workman, standard layout of fare table, anomalies double booking inter availability through booking and summation, private hire charges.
Module 4
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Module 5
Prevention of accidents:
Emphasis of safe driving, annual awards, bonus encouragement, vehicle design, platform layout, location of stops, scheduled speed, route hazards, records, elimination of accident prone drivers.
Timing, Bus working and Schedules:
Time table layout, uses of flat graph method of presentation, preparation of vehicle and crew schedule preparation of the duty roster, co-operation with
employers, use of the vehicle running numbering determination of vehicle efficiency checking efficiency of crew, duty arrangements.
Vehicle design:
Buses & coaches, types & capacities, basic features, entrances & exits, comfort & capacity, steps & staircases, miscellaneous arrangements & fitments, articulated buses, standardization. The future: a projection from the past, future demand, environmental and social issues, the energy situation, new technology, hybrid ,battery/trolley bus, other types of hybrid, lead acid battery bus, advanced battery bus.
Course Outcomes:
After completion of above course, students will be able to
- Determine infrastructure required for Fleet maintenance.
- Plan routes for fleet.
- Analyze fare collection system.
- Calculate fleet operating costs.
Text Books:
- Bus operation- L. D. Kitchen, Iliffe&Sons , London.
- Bus & coach operation – Rex W. Faulks, Butterworth Version Of 1987, London.
Reference Books:
- Compendium of transport terms – CIRT, Pune.
- M. V. Act 1988 – Central Law Agency, Allahabad.
- The elements of transportation – R.J. Eaton.
- Goods vehicle operation – C. S. Dubbar.
- Road transport law – L. D. Kitchen, Iliffe& Sons, London.
For detail syllabus of all other subjects of BE Auto, 2017 regulation do visit Auto 5th Sem syllabus for 2017 Regulation.
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