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Transportation reliability and vulnerability

This is a philosophical essay on transportation vulnerability, where three fields or subjects are brought together : engineering (reliability and vulnerability), economics (cost and benefits) and politics (decision making).The research essay aims at taking reliability and vulnerability into the realm of cost-benefit analysis to serve as decision support.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Structural embeddedness and the extended supply chain
The other day, while reviewing a chapter for inclusion (or not) in the upcoming book Managing Risk i[...]
Emergency Logistics
Can commercial logistics' ideas and solutions work in humanitarian supply chains? No. Why? Well, per[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book Review: Operations Rules
Operations Rules by David Simchi-Levi comes with an ambiguous title. You can read this two ways: 1) [...]
Book Review: Humanitarian Logistics
Summer break is over and time for a continuation of my blog posts. Humanitarian Logistics by Ronaldo[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Analysing road vulnerability in Norway
How does the Norwegian Public Roads Administration NRPA assess the vulnerability of the Norwegian ro[...]
Risky cities - want to work there?
If you are doing global business, do you know where you are at risk and what risk that is most perti[...]
from HERE and THERE
Sustainable Manufacturing Summit Europe
Soaring fuel prices combined with increasing awareness of the need to adapt for a low-carbon future [...]
The BBC box
I usually watch the BBC World Business Report every morning and today I learned that BBC News is fol[...]