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Will Climate Change have an impact on transportation?

Transportation professionals should look into the challenges posed by climate change and incorporate current scientific knowledge into the planning, design, construction, operation, and maintenance of transportation systems.

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How New Zealand develops resilient organisations

As our infrastructure and organisations become ever more networked and interdependent there is a growing need to focus on managing overall system risk. In particular, there is a need to focus not only on the vulnerability of our systems to failure, but also on our ability to manage and minimise the impact of any failures.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
A new supply chain perspective: The supply chain life cycle
It is not often that I come across papers with a holistic view of the supply chain as a living and d[...]
When your supplier goes bust...
...what do you do? Is so-called supplier default something you have even thought about? And what if [...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Low Cost Country Sourcing
Low-cost countries. A dream for some and a nightmare for other others. What are typical supply chain[...]
Book Review: Managing Risk and Resilience in the Supply Chain
This book is a gem. To me. Where Helen Peck in her article Reconciling supply chain vulnerability, r[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Saving Norway's crumbling infrastructure
NTP 2010-2019
Following up my post this morning called "D-Day for Norway's Transport Infrastructure", the numbers [...]
Are roads more important than computers?
Critical Infrastructure. Which is more important - or 'critical' - road networks or computers? What [...]
from HERE and THERE
Somali pirates forcing ships to make detour
In an earlier article today I quoted several sources saying that shipping companies are now seriousl[...]
Can you outsource risk?
While China has taken steps to address safety concerns after the recalls of last year, yet small pl[...]