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Road Vulnerability

Today we are going back in time, to one of the seminal articles in road vulnerability. It is a conceptual paper that provides the basis for why road vulnerability needs to be a more important issue .

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Transport Network Vulnerability Metrics

This paper presents a review of road network vulnerability, seeking to synthesize different terminologies and metrics, among which: reliability, vulnerability, resilience, flexibility, robustness, and adaptive capacity.

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Reliability and vulnerability in road development projects

Why is the reliability, or conversely, the vulnerability, of the transportation network not a matter of evaluation in traditional cost-benefit analyses? Few will question that the sender, the recipient, the freight hauler or society in general, experience additional costs when goods or persons cannot reach their destinations in time or space.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
German Autos at risk? Perhaps not.
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BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
The Resilient Organization
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REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Global Risks 2012
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ISO 28002 – Supply Chain Resilience
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from HERE and THERE
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