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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
How to secure your supply chain - 5/7
With this post, number five in a series translated from the Swedish book "Säkra företagets flöden", [...]
Finding the right location - minimizing disruption costs
Classical facility location models assume that once optimally located and set up, facilities will op[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book Review: Supply Chain Risk
A comment on a a previous book review - Supply Chain Risk Managament by Donald Waters - prompted me [...]
Understanding risks in Virtual Enterprise Networks
Today's unstable and highly competitive business environment has created a shift in how enterprises [...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Risk management - Vocabulary
What is risk management in supply chains? The more I study supply chain risk management, the more co[...]
How New Zealand develops resilient organisations
Is New Zealand better prepared for a disaster than other countries? As our infrastructure and organi[...]
from HERE and THERE
3rd Supply Chain Risk Management Seminar 2011
Finally, here it is, the 3rd Supply Chain Risk Management Seminar 2011 to be held in Barcelona, Spai[...]
Supply Chain Performance Metrics
Financial key performance indicators are valuable because they capture the economic consequences of [...]