Transportation Logistics and Economic Decline - Politics, Infrastructure and the Recession

Project Report from the year 2012 in the subject Business economics - Supply, Production, Logistics, grade: 100.00, - (American Public University System), course: Transportation Logistics, language: English, comment: Well written and organized paper, Ricky. I'm impressed by your understanding of these topics, and the systems thinking that you demonstrated from the outset. The economy and L&,T are indeed a system that interacts together. I've snipped a few highlights from your paper below that I think demonstrates your mastery. Your critical thinking about transportation and politics was crisp and insightful. Your paper is of appropriate length and style. The figures help tell the story, and are cited. Nice touch. Well done. - ernie , abstract: This paper attempts to explain the cyclical relationship between the transportation industry and the U.S. economy. It begins by exploring the scope of logistics activities and their impact upon the economy, and then attempts to show how the economy in turn determines the state of the transportation industry and its ability to contribute to the economy. The paper will then reveal the impacts upon the transportation sector because of the recessionary conditions beginning in 2007 and continuing until 2010. Finally, we will reveal how political partisanship has the ability to depress the health of the transportation industry by withholding needed infrastructure funds and the effect that has upon the economy.