Yearly Archives: 2005

Book Review: Transportation GIS

This book showcases many examples of how GIS can be applied in the field of transportation using ArcView GIS, but it doesn’t come with any theory. Unfortunately is is more like an overpriced ESRI sales brochure and not a textbook.

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The vulnerability of road networks in a cost-benefit perspective

A reliable transportation network represents a net benefit to society, and conversely, a vulnerable network represents a net cost to society. Hence, vulnerability ought to be an important parameter for decision-support in cost-benefit analyses, by seeking to establish a link between the terms reliability and vulnerability vis-à-vis costs and benefits.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Cry Wolf?
Resilience Adviser or Scaremonger? What am I really? That is what started to ask myself after I[...]
Supply Chain Confidence
Did a 2001 white paper turn into a 2004 academic journal article just like that? In Mitigating suppl[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
The Resilient Organization
What does it mean to be a resilient organization? That is the topic of  The Resilient Organization, [...]
Book Review: Research Methodologies in SCM
Is there something like the right research design for supply chain studies? I believe there is, and [...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Assess the vulnerability of your production system
So far I have reviewed "international" literature and web sites, and it is only fitting that now it [...]
Supply Chain and Transport Risk
We are living in a new world of risk that is making this world unprecedentedly complex and challengi[...]
from HERE and THERE
Dignitary Visits and Supply Chain Disruptions
Today is an important day here in Norway. Some Mr. Barack Obama comes for a visit to collect some No[...]
Crisis? What crisis?
Finally, almost to the day six months into my new job, a genuinely new post on husdal.com. My new li[...]