Jan Husdal

jan-husdal Jan Husdal has since 2005 been a Research Geographer with the Transport Economics Research Group at Møreforsking Molde in Molde, Norway, where he is engaged in cost-benefit evaluations and impact assessments of infrastructure projects, in particular air travel demand modelling.

Jan Husdal holds a BSc in Civil Engineering from Norway (1985) and an MSc with distinction in Geographic Information Science (GIS) from the University of Leicester, UK (2000), focussing on GIS in transportation.

Prior to his current position he served as a government adviser in vulnerability assessment, safe community planning and crisis management with several Norwegian government authorities for more than 15 years.

Since 2004 he has served as a member on the program committee on European Policy and Research with the Association for European Transport, AET, reviewing papers submitted for the annual European Transport Conference, ETC. He has also served on the scientific committee for the MITIP 2009 conference and will also do so for the upcoming MITIP 2010 conference.

He has served as a referee for articles submitted to Transportation Science (see acknowledgement), Transport Policy, Transportation Research C, and presented papers on supply chain risk and transportation vulnerability at various conferences since 2004.

His personal research interests, conference presentations and publications are centred on topics related to

His first major publication is scheduled to appear in 2010:
Husdal, J. (2010) A Conceptual Framework for Risk and Vulnerability in Virtual Enterprise Networks. In: S Ponis (Ed.) Managing Risk in Virtual Enterprise Networks: Implementing Supply Chain Principles. Hershey, PA: IGI Global.

He is the founder a husdal.com, a personal undertaking serving as a Internet gateway to journal articles, research papers, books, websites and other resources in Supply Chain Risk, Business Continuity, Transport Vulnerability and Transportation GIS, collected, evaluated and reviewed by himself.

In 2010 Jan Husdal became an affiliate of Kinaxis, a Canada-based company that delivers RapidResponse, an award-winning on-demand supply chain management tool. He is also a frequent discussion and blog contributor to the Kinaxis Supply Chain Expert Community.