Transport Management and Laws
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Transport Management and Laws Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Transport Management and Laws (subject code 2170205) as prescribed for Auto · Semester 7 divides the course into 7 units, covering 84 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (2170205)Unit 1 Introduction
- Introduction to various transport systems
- Advantages of motor transport
- Staff administration
- Recruitment and Training
- driver's health and safety
- Basic principles of supervising
- Organizing time and people
- Driver and mechanic hiring
- economical and safe driving tips for city and highway
- understanding of traffic rules
- Trip leasing
- Vehicle operation and types of operations
Unit 2 Transport Management
- Transport organization structure
- Planning Scheduling operation & control
- publicity and passenger amenities Parcel traffic
- General set up, transport industry
- government / (STU) State Government Undertakings and private Bus transport organizations
- Bus depot organisation structure
- Truck fleet operators’ organization
- Requirements and Problems on fleet management
- Firebrigade fleet and Ambulance operations management. 108 Organisational activities and it's benefits for the society
Unit 3 Scheduling and fare structure 10
- Principal features of operating costs for transport vehicles
- Fare structure, and Various types of fare collecting methods
- Basic factors of bus scheduling
- Problems on bus scheduling
Unit 4 Planning for New Transport Organization
- Geographical considerations
- economic factors
- vehicles used
- planning of trips
- Concept of BRTS operations
- Organisation of Transport Services: Records and fleet management
- vehicles 8schedule
- booking and reservation
- statistical records
- recording of goods transport Scheduling of goods transport
- Management Information System (MIS) in passenger / goods transport operation
- Storage & transportation of petroleum products
- Advanced Techniques in Traffic Management
- Traffic navigation
- Global positioning system
- Study of BRTS concept
- sysrem and management
- It's advantages and disadvantages interms of mass transportation
Unit 5 Motor Vehicle Act
- Acts & definitions
- Licensing of drivers and conductors
- registration of vehicles
- control of transport
- RTO and other regulations
- penalties and procedures
- types of form and procedures
- licensing of taxies and buses
- rules and regulations
- testing and passing of vehicles
- Description of goods carrier
- delivery van, tanker
- fire fighting and break down service vehicle
- Taxation: Structure
- method of laying taxation
- goods vehicle taxation
- passenger vehicle taxation
- mode of payment
- tax exemption
- one / life time taxation
- Service Life of vehicles
- Toll tax reasons & operational management
- Build Operate Transfer arrangement
- Highway traffic rules
- Taffic signs
- Natinal and international driving conditions / rules
Unit 6 Accident & Prevention
- Vehicle accident
- safety precautions
- road transport regulations
- Insurance Insurance & Finance Classes/types of insurance
- accident claims and settlements
- duty of driver in case of accident
- hire purchase
Unit 7 Laws Related to Pollution Under Control (PUC)
- Pollution Under control certification agency
- Authority & procedure for PUC certification agency
- Harmful exhaust gas constituents
- permissible limits
- Euro / Bharat Stage -I, II, III, IV norms and implementation
- testing and measurements
- Study of Odd-Even formula
- high power to weight ratio & higher capacity diesel vehicles and other possible methods for reduction of atmospheric pollution and it's impact