Cargo and Transport Management
8.275.03.01 Cargo and Transport Management
Qualification awarded: Master in transport technology (by types)
Entry year: 2021
Mode of study: full
Program duration: 1.5 years
Institute: Institute of Mechanical Engineering and Transport
Number of credits: 90 ECTS credits
Level of qualification according to the National Qualification Framework and the European Qualifications Framework: NQF Level 7 (Second cycle of QF-EHEA / EQF Level 7)
Field(s) of study: Transport services
Specific admission requirements: Define in Admission Regulations in every current year of admission
Qualification requirements and regulations, including graduation requirements: Carrying out of curriculum
Characteristics of the educational program: Educational-professional program “Organization of transportation and management on transport (by types of transport)” forms a plan and requirements to the education of master`s degree in the sphere of organization and management of road freight and passenger transportation in domestic and international connections, organization of transport-forwarding activities, customs control, and also supply chain management.
Gained competence: 1. Analysis and investigation of transport services market;
2. Optimization of transport processes and systems;
3. Analysis and identification of transport processes;
4. Research of logistic systems and justification of their parameters;
5. Determination of technical, economic, and social risks in the sphere of transportation;
6. Research of operations in transport systems;
7. Transport systems modeling.
1. To analyze methods of transport systems research;
2. To simulate transport processes;
3. To find optimal solution among alternative variants of transportation systems;
4. To evaluate and forecast parameters of material and passenger flows;
5. To analyze and develop educational programs of preparing professionals in the field of transport;
6. To evaluate the existing and develop progressive methods of transport processes research;
7. To forecast the development of transport services market;
8. To simulate operations of transport processes.
1. Ability to communicate, including oral and written communication in Ukrainian and Foreign languages (English, German, Italian, French, Spanish);
2. Ability to use different methods, in particular, modern informational technologies for effective communication on professional and social levels.
Academic mobility: Between Lviv Polytechnic National University and other universities. Participation in individual programs of academic mobility within the projects Erasmus and by the programs of dual degree
Work placement(s): Practice by the topic of master`s qualification paper on the enterprises and organizations of the field, and also authorities by general amount 10,5 ECTS credits.
Programme director: doctor of technical sciences, professor of transport technologies department Vikovych Ihor Andriiovych
Occupational profiles of graduates: Positions of leaders, managers, professionals (for positions which do not require the conferment of a higher degree of Philosophy Doctor or Science Doctor), duties of which are related with the organization and management of transport, transport-production, transport-storage processes, realization of transport technologies, providing the transport-logistic, operator and forwarding services, transport systems design, carrying out the scientific research and teaching activities in the sphere of transport systems and technologies.
Access to further studies: Obtaining third (educational and scientific / educational and creative) level