TERMINOLOGICAL ASPECTS IN TRANSPORT SYSTEM MODELING

In the theory of transport processes and transport systems, we often have to use terms whose meaning is not fully understood. For example, are transportation and a transportation system two completely different concepts? If transportation is a system, what is the system's backbone or substrate? When we manipulate transport, do we carry out transport production (materially enrich the world), or do we provide a useful service? What are the actual products of transport? How can we treat logistics objectively: is transport a tool in the hands of logistics, or is it the other way around? The purpose of the study is to clarify or organize the content of the listed concepts and terms widely used in the theory of transport processes and transport systems with the help of more reliable arguments. It appears that the terms “transport” and “transport system” are synonyms of the same thing. It can be said that the term “transport” is an object designation of the same thing that, in cognition, is a transport system. A completely extraneous spatio-temporal factor, which can be called transport potential or transport pressure, generates a transport system as such. Potentials arise due to the uneven dispersion of civilization products and civilization demand. Transport is a full-fledged participant in production, and the transportation process is rather a material production. It makes no sense to consider the transportation process itself as a product. Rather, products are goods or an interested party at the destination, which were forced to be in the status of cargo or passenger during the transportation process. In particular, transport picks up a finished product of “someone else's” production, but brings goods to the final destination, while goods are a product of “its” production. However, it is not necessary to categorically deny the service aspect of transport use. The sphere of services and the sphere of goods seem to be closely intertwined. If logic is the science of thinking, then logistics is a hybrid ideology (or perhaps philosophy) of doing and managing. Transportation should be driven by logistics, not the other way around. This statement should become a postulate of the theory of transport systems, and postulates are known to be the framework of science.