Traffic management

"Traffic control" redirects here. For other uses, seeTraffic control (disambiguation).

Specialised vehicle designed for traffic management installation

Traffic managementis a key branch withinlogistics.It concerns the planning, control and purchasing of transport services needed to physically move vehicles (for exampleaircraft,road vehicles,rolling stockandwatercraft) andfreight.

Traffic management is implemented by people working with different job titles in different branches:

• Within freight and cargo logistics:traffic manager,assessment of hazardous and awkward materials, carrier choice and fees,demurrage,documentation,expediting,freight consolidation, insurance, reconsignment and tracking
• Withinair traffic management:air traffic controller
• Within rail traffic management:rail traffic controller,train dispatcherorsignalman
• Withinroad traffic management:traffic controller

See also

• Air traffic control,a service provided by ground-based controllers who direct aircraft
• Road traffic control,directing vehicular and pedestrian traffic around a construction zone, accident or other road disruption
• Traffic control inshipping lanes
• Urban(peak-hour) traffic management

References

traffic control company sydney

External links

• Media related toTraffic managementat Wikimedia Commons