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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
Adaptation versus Transformation
Many businesses believe themselves to be nested in a stable environment and are confounded when thin[...]
The flexibility of the logistics provider
Supply chain flexibility is a decisive factor in avoiding supply chain disruptions. One major contri[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
The Definition of Agility
Although getting close to 20 years old now, The Agile Virtual Enterprise: Cases, Metrics, Tools, wri[...]
The Handbook of Business Continuity Management
As I said in my post yesterday, Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM) has many similarities with Busin[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Hiperos - the Integrated View of Supplier Risk
Supply chains have gone global. No longer are they a point-to-chain of goods flowing from a source t[...]
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[...]
from HERE and THERE
7 out of 10 businesses without a continuity plan
An article today in the paper issue of Dagens Næringsliv, the Norwegian equivalent of the Financial [...]
MITIP2009 – a conference worth considering
The purpose of the Modern Information Technology in the Innovation Processes of the Industrial Enter[...]