Transport service
The transport service (also transport service, mobility service ) is a task of the transport companies as well as their goods produced by means of transport and traded on the transport market. It includes the safe, economical, efficient and sustainable provision of a traffic process - with the aim of changing the spatial existence of people, goods or messages. The transport service has some characteristics typical of services that significantly shape the transport sector , such as: B. the non-storability, the consumption during the creation, the participation of the transport customer, the temporary transfer of ownership of the transport object into the care of the transport company and the like. a.
Types of transport services
The various transport services form individual sectors in the transport market (service-oriented transport sectors ):
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passenger traffic
- Long- distance passenger transport: tourism / tourism ,
- Local public transport: Local public transport , taxi and rental car transport
- Freight transport services; Freight traffic in local, regional and international relations,
- Logistics , forwarding , freighting, transport ,
- Supply services with water / wastewater, energy, heat (pipeline or pipeline transport ),
- Postal services / courier, express and parcel services ( CEP ),
- Communications : Telecommunications / telecommunications (transmission of non-material messages), e.g. B. data carrier services, provider services u. Ä. - Often referred to as virtual mobility services compared to physical mobility services.