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Book Review: The Full Costs and Benefits of Transportation

This book is a welcome addition to the field of cost-benefit analysis in transportation. It contains individual contributions from 20 or so respected academics, each describing a separate field of study. I have seldom seen a fuller and more holistic approach to cost and benefits in transportation research.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
The impact of supply chain disasters
Disasters. The result: Damaged infrastructure. End result: Disrupted supply chains. But how do disas[...]
Mitigating Supply Chain Vulnerability
I'm a quantitative researcher, so I usually shy away from journal articles with too many equations a[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book Review: Political Risk
Egypt is in crisis. After Tunisia, now Egypt is rocked by a popular uprising, and the outcome of the[...]
Book review: Cost-Benefit Analysis
This book, Cost Benefit Analysis: Concepts and Practice (3rd Edition), by Anthony Boardman et al. is[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
London Olympics and Business Continuity
Are UK businesses, and in particular London businesses, unprepared for the London Olympics in 2012? [...]
Supply chain disruption risk on the rise
Global supply chains are increasingly becoming more vulnerable to potential disruption to trade, say[...]
from HERE and THERE
Supply Chain Performance Metrics
Financial key performance indicators are valuable because they capture the economic consequences of [...]
Location, location, location
Albeit many supply chains make use of more than one, if not all modes of transport, the vulnerabilit[...]