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2009/03/25 my PUBLIC PRESENCE

Avbrudd - Forsyningskjedens mørke side

avbrudd-forsyningskjede

Selv om kostnadsreduserende tiltak og outsourcing kan ha klare fordeler har det å gi slipp på kontrollen med forsyningskjeden sine utfordringer. Denne artikkelen er et intervju med meg og hentet fra Logistikk & Ledelse nummer 3/2009. [ ... ]

2009/03/16 my PUBLIC PRESENCE

Er rassikring lønnsomt?

rassikring-rb080924

Rassikring av veger har en klar samfunnsøkonomisk nytteverdi, men hvor stor er den? De største gevinstene er knyttet til å unngå omkjøring, skape trygghet og redusere antall ulykker. Hvordan måler man dette i kroner? [ ... ]

2009/03/13 REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS

Saving Norway's crumbling infrastructure

NTP 2010-2019

The Norwegian government intends to spend some 320,000,000 NOK ($45,000,000,000) on transport infrastructure over the next 10 years.Will Norway be able to save its crumbling infrastructure without a disaster like the Minnesota bridge collapse? [ ... ]

2009/03/13 THIS and THAT

D-Day for Norway's Transport Infrastructure

ntp

Norway’s transport infrastructure is way behind much of Europe, but today Norway’s government is presenting it’s development plans for the Norwegian transport infrastructure for 2010 to 2019 (Nasjonal Transportplan 2010-2019). [ ... ]

2009/03/02 THIS and THAT

The curse of being oil-rich

road-standard-norway

Ah…the complacency of being oil rich. So complacent, in fact, that we forget about our infrastructure. [ ... ]

2009/03/01 REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS

Infrastructure - essential for competitiveness?

aftenposten-090228

In overall infrastructure quality, Norway ranks 28/134, behind many other European countries, which is not too bad, but when it comes to road quality, Norway ranks 48/134, even behind countries such as Namibia (23/134), Tunisia (39/134) and Botswana (44/134). [ ... ]

2009/02/24 THIS and THAT

How to count money spent on road investments

road-construction

Norway spent less money on road investments in 2007 than in 1995, that is, if you count in % of GDP. Is that a correct way of looking at it? Is that a correct way of looking at it? [ ... ]

2009/02/23 THIS and THAT

How come one of the world's richest countries has one of the world's worst road network?

pork-barrel-spending

It is not the planning authorities or the central government who decides infrastructure development in Norway, but the local politicians. To put it simple, what in the US is known as “pork barrel spending” is what rules many of Norway’s infrastructure development projects. Why? [ ... ]

2008/12/11 THIS and THAT

Norwegian roads are slooooow...

norwegian-roads-slow

Comparing average speed on roads in 13 countries, it turns out that travelling in central Europe is several times much faster than in Norway. Norwegian roads are sub-standard compared to much of Europe. Anyone who has ever been to Norway will agree. [ ... ]

2008/11/04 THIS and THAT

Sparse transportation networks - a nightmare for supply chains

E6 Steinkjer Løsberga

Sparse transportation networks, like in Norway, are a recipe for supply chain disruptions. Furthermore, unlike in regions with a dense transportation network, supply chain management in a sparse network setting comes close to being business continuity management. [ ... ]

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