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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
Supply chain agility - Risk mitigation and response
How does company culture shape a firm's risk mitigation and response, and thus, how does company cul[...]
The future of SCRM
What is the potential future for supply chain risk management? That is what Abhijeet Ghadge, Samir D[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book Review: Political Risk
Egypt is in crisis. After Tunisia, now Egypt is rocked by a popular uprising, and the outcome of the[...]
Book Review: Enterprise SCM
Have you ever played SimCity? I never liked Transport Tycoon that much, but I used to play SimCity a[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
The supply chain of the future
A recent report by IBM, referenced by Supply Chain Digest in IBM Lays Out its Vision for the Supply [...]
Highway Vulnerability and Criticality Assessment
Transportation vulnerability and resilience have been the focus of this blog for the past two days, [...]
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Book Review: Transportation Systems Security
This book, Transportation Systems Security by by Allan McDougall and Robert Radvanovsky is not what [...]
Operational Excellence - or not
Operational Excellence or OpEx for short, what does that imply and why should you care about it? Wel[...]