Freight transportation

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.