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
When your supplier goes bust...
...what do you do? Is so-called supplier default something you have even thought about? And what if [...]
Supply Chain Risk Management Research
What are the current gaps that waiting to be closed in supply chain risk management research? Here i[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book Review: Managing External Risk
I am blessed to have a college library that complies with most of my book acquisition requests and t[...]
The Definition of Agility
Although getting close to 20 years old now, The Agile Virtual Enterprise: Cases, Metrics, Tools, wri[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Calculating the Value-at-Risk
Some of you may remember that I posted about the SCOR Framework for Supply Chain Risk Management ear[...]
Zycus and the Supply Risk Explosion
"Ten or fifteen years ago, you could not convince most procurement and supply-chain professionals to[...]
from HERE and THERE
Google Scholar - really scholarly?
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Remember my previous post on Online Journals – curse or blessing? Here’s another take on the issue o[...]
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[...]