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Resilience in road projects – 3R

This simplified resilience assessment for road projects was presented at the XVIth World Winter Service and Road Resilience Congress in Calgary in February 2022. We call his method the 3R-method because we use three Rs, robustness, redundancy and recovery as a measure of resilience

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Analysing road vulnerability in Norway

The Norwegian Public Roads Administration NRPA is to have an overview of the threats to and the vulnerability of the road network, and work across its own organsation (and together with other agencies) in necessary contingency planning in order to ensure the best possible accessibility under changing conditions and/or possible or actual threats. How?

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Heading in a new direction

I will be changing jobs and relocating in early 2012. I will be leaving academia and research and continue the governmental and administrative career I left 6 years ago. Having said the above, I will not leave supply chain risk or this blog behind.

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The world we live in: Risk Society

We live in a world that is full of risk, risks that we to a large degree have created ourselves, and naturally occuring risk hardly exists anymore. That is a risk society.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Shrink Shrank Shrunk
A missed classic? Perhaps, because after reading this article I realized that this in many ways is a[...]
Pyramidal thoughts
A promising title with promising content? Perhaps. If you are a supply chain or logistics profession[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book review: Handbook of Transportation Engineering
Comprehensive and all-encompassing, the Handbook of Transportation Engineering by Myer Kutz (editor)[...]
Risk and vulnerability in maritime supply chains
This week's focus are risks in the maritime supply chain. Today's article reflects on security in ma[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Are roads more important than computers?
Critical Infrastructure. Which is more important - or 'critical' - road networks or computers? What [...]
Supply Chain Security
Today's supply chains circle the globe and form the backbone of world trade and a are major factor i[...]
from HERE and THERE
Sparse transportation networks and disruptions
The vulnerability of the transportation network as part of the supply chain is of particular interes[...]
The Swedish Road Network - Vulnerable or not?
The Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden KTH is in the finishing stages of a research [...]