Three new TEA pamphlets help transporters with strategic mobility and deployment planning.The Military Traffic Management Command's Transportation Engineering Agency has supported the joint deployment community with distribution solutions and strategic planning Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people. pamphlets for many years. TEA's newest publications continue to provide that support. The "Logistics Handbook for Strategic Mobility Planning," MTMCTEA MTMCTEA Military Traffic Management Command Transportation Engineering Agency Pamphlet 700-2, dated September 2002, provides a broad range of vital transportation information and guidance for the successful mobilization, deployment and sustainment of U.S. forces worldwide. Sections on highway, rail, air and sea transport provide a general discussion of the mode of transportation, an inventory of transportation assets, transit data and loading criteria and restrictions. Dimensional data dimensional data see dimensional data. also is provided for railcars, ships, aircraft and containers. The "Deployment Planning Operational planning directed toward the movement of forces and sustainment resources from their original locations to a specific operational area for conducting the joint operations contemplated in a given plan. Guide, Transportation Assets Required for Deployment," MTMCTEA Pamphlet 700-5, dated May 2001, is designed to help planners make gross estimates regarding transportation requirements. It lists the transportation assets needed to deploy various units. This guide provides planners with unit compositions for six Army-type divisions in the reduced shipping configuration. It shows the shipping requirements for deploying units by containerization con·tain·er·ize v.tr. con·tain·er·ized, con·tain·er·iz·ing, con·tain·er·iz·es 1. To package (cargo) in large standardized containers for efficient shipping and handling. 2. , surface transportation (continental U.S. and overseas), strategic airlift and sealift sea·lift tr.v. sea·lift·ed, sea·lift·ing, sea·lifts To transport (troops or supplies) by sea, as when ground or air routes are blocked. n. A system or an instance of such transport. . Last but not least is the newest addition to the MTMCTEA family of publications, the "Large, Medium-Speed, Roll-on/Roll-off Ships Users' Manual," MTMCTEA Pamphlet 700-6, dated September 2002. This publication provides detailed data on each of the four Large, Medium-Speed, Roll-on/Roll-off (LMSR LMSR large, medium speed roll-on/roll-off (US DoD) LMSR Linear Multistage Receiver ) ship classes. It includes information on the capabilities, characteristics, configurations, material handling equipment, ship's gear and loading considerations for each class. It is designed to aid marine cargo specialists, vessel stowplanners, joint planners and analysts, reserve units, port operations personnel and anyone involved with the planning and implementation of loading and stowing cargo on these vessels. These pamphlets, along with other TEA publications, can be accessed or ordered from the TEA website at www.tea.army.mil. |
|
||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion