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Point merge – the latest in aviation logistics

I’ve been travelling this week, which is why there haven’t been any posts for a while, and on my trip I experienced first hand the latest innovation in aviation logistics: Point Merge. Effectively, this new system is nothing more than Just-In-Time in practice. Why does this make flying better?

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A-maze-ing discoveries

After only knowing about it for a day or two, I must say that I am fascinated by the Theory of Constraints and I intend to find out more about it.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Resilience X 10
Transport network resilience has 10 properties. So says Pamela Murray-Tuite in her 2006 article A Co[...]
Resilience revisited
How many ways are there for defining vulnerability and criticality, really? Traditionally, risk matr[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book Review: This is where raster GIS started...
...well not really, but Geographic Information Systems and Cartographic Modeling by Dana Tomlin spar[...]
Risk Management in Maritime Transportation Networks
This week’s focus are risks in the maritime supply chain, and today's article introduces a new metho[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Are roads more important than computers?
Critical Infrastructure. Which is more important - or 'critical' - road networks or computers? What [...]
Zycus and the Supply Risk Explosion
"Ten or fifteen years ago, you could not convince most procurement and supply-chain professionals to[...]
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Transportation reliability and vulnerability
This is a philosophical essay on transportation vulnerability, where three fields or subjects are br[...]
Downgrades are upgrades
Time for episode three of "Suitemates", the big new marketing campaign by Kinaxis, a Canada-based su[...]