Mission Statement

Prof. Dr. S. Kummer

Prof. Dr. S. Kummer

Transport and Logistics Management has not only an interesting past but also looks forward to a challenging future.

The Institute for Transport and Logistics Management holds numerous practice-oriented events, carries out applied research and provides top-quality educational programs. Together with businesses, associations, students and policy makers we solve real-life problems, address challenging questions with a scientific approach and promote knowledge transfer.

Emphasis in Teaching

The Transport and Logistics Management program is a specialization in an area with a great demand for qualified top-level personnel. It is our goal to produce graduates with outstanding qualifications who have profound knowledge in the area of Business Administration and are able to handle fast, continuous and customer-oriented flows of materials, goods and people as well as manage the information necessary to complete these tasks. The program’s core subjects deal with the main topics relevant to the field; to extend and deepen their knowledge, students can choose further courses from the Advanced Subjects course list. The same high standards apply to all courses, including the course materials, the lectures given by practitioners, the course-related exams and regular field trips.

Emphasis in Research

The scholarly and practice-oriented research conducted by our team provides innovative solutions to transport and logistics problems. Our emphasis in research lies on:

  • management of transportation companies
  • logistics management
  • supply chain management
  • logistics controlling
  • e-commerce / e-logistics
  • local public transport
  • transportation markets / common carriers
  • transportation policy
  • socioeconomic assessment in transportation

In the past years, we have carried out numerous projects on these issues with partners like the EU, BMVIT (Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology), WKÖ (Austrian Economic Chamber), ASFINAG, RHI Group, BMW, Lufthansa, Deutsche Bahn, ÖAMTC, and Kühne + Nagel.

We share our knowledge in the domain of transport and logistics management through publications, in our training and education programs and in the projects in which we participate. We consider knowledge transfer to be an obligation to society, and therefore offer this service to companies and public institutions.

Publications

We report on results obtained from our research projects and discuss current topics in the area of transport and logistics in many different publications.

Projects

We have carried out more than 100 scholarly and practice-oriented projects. Our project team’s qualities include innovative ideas, profound state-of-the-art knowledge and a practice-oriented approach to problem solving.

Executive Education

We share our knowledge by:

  • holding lectures for the education/training programs of renowned institutions,
  • organizing top-notch seminars
  • participating in forums and working groups
  • acting as partners for custom in-house training programs