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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
Supply Chain Risk redefined?
What is supply chain risk really? That is what Iris Heckmann, Tina Comes and Stefan Nickel try to an[...]
Resilience X 10
Transport network resilience has 10 properties. So says Pamela Murray-Tuite in her 2006 article A Co[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Supply Chain Logistics Risk in Germany
What are the most common supply chain and logistics risks that businesses and logistics providers ha[...]
Book Review: Your Research Project
This book is a must-have for any serious student or budding research. Even if you consider yourself [...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Global Risks 2009 - Countries at risk?
How will the current financial downturn affect supply chains? That's what we all wonder about, isn't[...]
Managing supply chain risk
In September and October 2009 the Economist Intelligence Unit surveyed 500 company executives with r[...]
from HERE and THERE
INSTR 2010 - Call for papers
I can't believe I haven't mentioned this conference on my blog before., because the call has been ou[...]
Today's transport disruption: volcanoes
I haven't had a "In the news" post for quite some time, but now Norway and much of Northern Europe a[...]