Answer to Question #271652 in Management for praynay

Question

 “Natures Friend” is an NGO that makes books and pencils from recycled paper and 

supplies to government run schools. Goods are made in remote villages, transported to

cities and distributed to schools every month.   

a. Describe players in Transportation in this case situation.                      

 

b. Describe Transport Economics in this case situation?

Answer 1

There are five main stakeholders involved in the transportation decisions: the shipper, the receiver, carriers and agents, the government and the consumer. It is clear that the policies will be formed around these five factors, which are often complex and tend to result in conflict.A transport system can be conceptualized as the set of relationships between nodes, networks, and the demand. These relationships involve locations spatially expressing this demand, flows between them, and infrastructures designed to handle and link these flows.