Cargo Transportation Math – Measurement Conversions

Course Overview

This course covers essential measurement concepts and calculations used in logistics and transportation. Students will learn to convert between metric and English units for linear, area, and cubic measurements, compute cargo volume and shipping container utilization, and distinguish between weight, mass, density, and pressure. Additional topics include temperature conversions for sensitive cargo, calculating speed and travel time across multi-modal routes, fuel consumption analysis, and the impact of acceleration on cargo packaging. Practical applications focus on optimizing transportation efficiency and ensuring accurate communication in logistics operations.

• Linear measurement units, including converting them between metric and English units;
• Computing area based in both metric and English units.
• Computing the cubic measurement;
• Converting cubic measurement between metric and English system;
• Computing the cube for shipment of a package, other item of cargo and entire shipment;
• Computing the utilization of a shipping container.
• Explain the distinction between weight, mass, density and pressure;
• Understand the units of measure for weight, mass, density and pressure, and be able to convert between their metric to English measures.
• Compute density from the weight and dimensions of a package.
• Factors which must be considered and perhaps computed when planning a transportation “load.”
• Convert between Celsius and Fahrenheit temperature scales
• Know when and how to communicate temperature range for temperature sensitive cargo during the order processing and shipment;
• Compute average speed, travel time, and time to destination over a multiple segment/multiple mode transportation route;
• Express fuel consumption from information about fuel quantity and distance;
• Understand the concept of acceleration and deceleration, and why this is important in packaging cargo.