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INSTR 2012 – Call for papers

The INSTR series is the premier gathering for the world’s leading researchers and professionals interested in transportation network reliability, to discuss both recent research and future research directions. The deadline for submitting abstracts is 30 January 2012.

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INSTR 2010 – Call for papers

The aim of INSTR is to bring together researchers and professionals interested in transportation network reliability, to discuss both recent research and future directions in this increasingly important field of research.

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Book review: The Network Reliability of Transport

I guess you would have to have attended the conference yourself or be a researcher in this very field to actually go and buy this book, but it certainly is worth a read. These are the people you would want to cooperate with in your own research and reading their articles is one way to get to know them.

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Reliability and vulnerability versus costs and benefits

The paper outlines a framework for developing a methodology that to incorporate reliability and vulnerability as parameters for decision-support in a cost-benefit analysis. In doing so, this paper seeks to establish a link between the terms reliability/vulnerability and cost/benefit and seeks to describe reliability and vulnerability in terms of cost and benefit.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Transportation - the forgotten staple
What a difference a title makes. I only found this article because it was referenced in another arti[...]
Supply Chain Risk Literature: a complete review
Finally, here it is, the complete review of supply chain risk. At least by the looks of it. Supply c[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book Review - Fraud Risk
Last year I was approached by Gower Publishing and invited to review their Short Guides to Business [...]
Can your business take a blow?
Are you prepared for whatever mishaps your business throws at you? If you're not, you better start l[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Saving Norway's crumbling infrastructure
NTP 2010-2019
Following up my post this morning called "D-Day for Norway's Transport Infrastructure", the numbers [...]
The Benefits of Investing in Supply Chain Security
With the memory of attacks by Somali pirates still fresh in mind, supply chain security has come to [...]
from HERE and THERE
CNN: The Gateway
Hosted by news anchor Becky Anderson, the CNN Gateway is a series that goes behind the scenes of the[...]
If the UK goes cold, blame me
Still thinking about my recent post on the importance of security of supply, I first added salt and [...]