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Extreme Weather Hazards and Transportation Vulnerability

Weather Extremes: Assessment of Impacts on Transport Systems and Hazards for European Regions is an EU project that aims at analysing the economic costs of more frequent and more extreme weather events on transport and on the wider economy and explores adaptation strategies in the context of sustainable policy design.

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No grit No roads No show?

No grit means no cleared roads means no one able to get anywhere and a no-show of people everywhere. Employees not coming to work because of extreme weather will cost the UK £12,000,000,000,000.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Interpreting Resiliency
In yesterday's post on Freight Transportations Systems Resilience I mentioned Kelly Pitera and her M[...]
The difference between legal and illegal supply chains
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BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Supply Chain Nirvana
Is there something like a Supply Chain Nirvana, where it all comes together and where a firm's suppl[...]
Is Dynamic Supply Chain Alignment the way of the future?
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REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Assess the vulnerability of your production system
So far I have reviewed "international" literature and web sites, and it is only fitting that now it [...]
Supply Chain Security
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Less cost and less disruptions?
One of the regular readers of my blog alerted me to an article in the NY Times titled Slow Trip Acro[...]
Remote Logistics
Yesterday I was talking about emergency logistics, today it is remote logistics. The other day I ca[...]