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Risk & Vulnerability

Supply chains are increasingly becoming complex webs and networks and are no longer straightforward chains with just a few links between supplier and customer.

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Assess the vulnerability of your production system

The paper defines the concept of vulnerability as it applies to production systems and is built around three concepts: A taxonomy of vulnerability factors as a basis for or guideline in establishing scenarios.
An input/output model to describe production systems.
A two-step vulnerability analysis for productions systems.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Transportation - the forgotten staple
What a difference a title makes. I only found this article because it was referenced in another arti[...]
Supply chain vulnerability and resilience
Today's post is a review of a conference paper written by Francesco Longo and Tuncer Ören in 2008 an[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book review: GIS for Transportation
Having been a student with Harvey Miller at the University of Utah 2000-2002 probably makes my revie[...]
Book Review: Transportation Security
Instead of Transportation Systems Security, which I reviewed in an earlier post, I should have settl[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Will Climate Change have an impact on transportation?
Many studies have already examined the potential impacts of climate change on broad sectors of the e[...]
Vulnerable or valuable supply chain?
More than a year old now, but still holding not so few words of wisdom is the Pricewaterhouse Cooper[...]
from HERE and THERE
Network analysis – raster versus vector – A comparison
Network analysis in GIS is often related to finding solutions to transportation problems. In a GIS t[...]
ERDAS tutorial
About the tutorial This tutorial is taken from my coursework for the MSc in GIS at the University o[...]