About us

The vision of the Department of Transport Economics and Logistics is to provide relevant and functional degrees and programmes of high standard quality tuition, and a professional caring and valued customer service to all its stakeholders. Transport has a major impact on the activities of a country and its people. By creating mobility and accessibility transport makes it possible for social, cultural, sport, recreational or economic activities to take place at specific times and places and for people to participate in them both domestically and internationally.

The economics of transportation is therefore an applied science in which economic and business principles are applied to the transport industry. It deals mainly with balancing the demand for with the supply of transport in all the various modes of transportation. Logistics is closely related to transport economics and involves all activities to ensure that the right product is at the right place at the right time in the right quantity. Transport is also a major component of the tourism industry as travel can be classified in terms of social, cultural, sport, recreational and economic purposes.