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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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from HERE and THERE
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ETC 2012 - Call for papers
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