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Book Reviews in Geographical Information Systems

Book Review: The Geography of Transport Systems

This book will fascinate, because it so brilliantly explains, explores, researches and reviews the spatial impact of transportation systems and how they have shaped the world that surrounds us.

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Book Review: Transportation GIS

This book showcases many examples of how GIS can be applied in the field of transportation using ArcView GIS, but it doesn’t come with any theory. Unfortunately is is more like an overpriced ESRI sales brochure and not a textbook.

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Book review: GIS for Transportation

Mind you, this book is not for the fainthearted, this is solid academic work and specked with references that are hard to get, and you are likely to spend more time in the library reading up on the bibliography than digesting the actual text.

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Book Review: This is where raster GIS started…

Tomlin is a must to any academic student of GIS, since much or nearly all work on raster GIS springs off from Tomlin’s work….well not really, but Geographic Information Systems and Cartographic Modeling by Tomlin sparked the scientific interest in it.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Supply chain vulnerability: Mitigation strategies
A new outlet for articles on supply chain vulnerability? Perhaps. And actually, it's not that new, s[...]
Sheffi's Resilient Enterprise and supply chain risk
It is unfortunate that many companies still leave risk management and business continuity to securit[...]
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: The Full Costs and Benefits of Transportation
This book, The Full Costs and Benefits of Transportation: Contributions to Theory, Method and Measur[...]
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[...]
Are roads more important than computers?
Critical Infrastructure. Which is more important - or 'critical' - road networks or computers? What [...]
from HERE and THERE
Identification and simulation of risks in supply networks
The other day I got an email from Jan Bertrand, a Master student at the University of Technology Ham[...]
Business continuity 101
This is the 3rd day with severe transportation and thus supply chain disruptions all over Europe, du[...]