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When disaster strikes…

Transportation recovery plans need to look beyond their mere purpose of addressing hazards in the transportation network. The transportation network is essential to many community. This implies that the restoration of the transportation network also means the restoration of the economy and the society, not just the infrastructure.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
A conceptual framework for supply chain vulnerability
Today's article is one of the earlier works on supply chain vulnerability, published in 2000. A conc[...]
Importance and Exposure – Measures of Vulnerability?
Today I am presenting a paper from an old friend of mine. Well, "friend" is perhaps a slight exagger[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book Review: Transportation GIS
This book showcases many examples of how GIS can be applied in the field of transportation using Arc[...]
Book Review: Ethical Risk
This is - for the time being - the sixth and final review of the books in the Gower Short Guides to [...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Risk management - Vocabulary
What is risk management in supply chains? The more I study supply chain risk management, the more co[...]
How New Zealand develops resilient organisations
Is New Zealand better prepared for a disaster than other countries? As our infrastructure and organi[...]
from HERE and THERE
The curse of being oil-rich
Ah...the complacency of being oil rich. So complacent, in fact, that we forget about our infrastruct[...]
Can Somali pirates bring down supply chains?
The BBC news this morning ran an interesting and worrying story: Shipping companies are considering [...]