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Resilience X 10

Transport resilience has 10 dimensions, says Pamela Murray-Tuite. What are these 10 dimensions and how can they help us understand transport network resilience? And what about Godschalk?

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Vulnerability and resilience of transport systems

Essentially, risk management is all about mitigation, whereas adaptation lays the groundwork for resilience. Risk management is only about preparedness, response, and recovery. By adding adaptation to those three we also add resilience.

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Transport infrastructure resilience

Is it possible to devise a simple framework for assessing the resilience of the transport infrastructure? The answer is Yes, and the New Zealand Transport Agency has done so.

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The UK Transport Network Resilience…and I

The report, written by the Hyder Consulting Group, dated 2010 and titled Network Resilience and Adaptation, assesses and details in great depth the vulnerability and resilience of the transport infrastructure in the East of England. And it uses me as a reference.

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Transportation Resilience

Resilience is related to three overarching concepts: 1) the vulnerability to unpredictable shocks, 2) the resources or wealth available to a system to help it change, and 3) the internal controllability of relationships in a system, i.e. its rigidity or flexibility.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
The capability concept
Capability is an important measure in addressing vulnerabilities and in assessing resilience. Is the[...]
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 - Fraud Risk
Last year I was approached by Gower Publishing and invited to review their Short Guides to Business [...]
Transportation Hazards
This is an updated and extended review of  the Handbook of Transportation Engineering by Myer Kutz ([...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Supply chain vulnerability: an invisible global risk?
Supply chain disruption - a global issue? All companies and governments dependent on external suppli[...]
The supply chain of the future
Many global supply chains are not equipped to cope with the world we are entering. Most were enginee[...]
from HERE and THERE
Supply Chain Risk Webinars
I've never given much though to webinars as a means of communication, as  blogging is my force, alth[...]
Conferences in Transportation and Supply Chain
Looking for a list of conferences in supply chain and transportation-related topics? By accident, I [...]