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Transportation Lifelines and Critical Infrastructure

This is the first paper that sparked my research interest in transportation vulnerability, and what would later become the focus area of my research: the cost of transportation vulnerability and the benefit of transportation reliability.

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Resilience revisited

How many ways are there for defining vulnerability and criticality, really? Traditionally, risk matrixes have a likelihood/impact approach, but not always. Yesterday, I was examining a criticality/vulnerability matrix.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Mitigating Supply Chain Vulnerability
I'm a quantitative researcher, so I usually shy away from journal articles with too many equations a[...]
Supply chain risk in turbulent environments
An intriguing title caught my eye today.  Supply chain risk in turbulent environments - A conceptua[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book Review: This is where raster GIS started...
...well not really, but Geographic Information Systems and Cartographic Modeling by Dana Tomlin spar[...]
Appetite versus Attitude
Finally, and long overdue, another review in the Gower Short Guide to Business Risk book series. Thi[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
America’s Crumbling Infrastructure
My daily morning routine includes a cup of coffee while watching the World Business Report on BBC Wo[...]
Engineering transportation lifelines
New Zealand is probably not the fist country that comes to mind when thinking of state-of-the-art tr[...]
from HERE and THERE
Fewer suppliers mean fewer choices for consumers
The financial crisis has created an supply chain crisis, says The Economist. As demand for cheap goo[...]
How to get a PhD without a dissertation
This is a true story about how I was credited with a PhD without having one, just because someone mi[...]