Book Description: This manual is both a planning guide for staff and unit officers and a digest of operational data for reference by operators and users of transportation. It gives characteristics of typical transportation equipment and facilities and methods for estimating capabilities and requirements for transportation equipment, facilities, and troop units. It provides personnel and equipment data for the modes of transportation and for transportation terminals; and data for computing requirements for staff, supervisor, and control activities. It also addresses administrative support requirements. It contains report formats and examples of orders and standing operating procedures; loading data for water, rail, motor, and air movements; tables on weights, measures, and conversion factors; and miscellaneous information of general usefulness. The appendices contain useful conversions, international signage and much more. Invaluable for the civilian analyst, strategist, planner, or game designer. (Originally published by the U.S. Army in 1997 - still current as of 2010)