The Men who killed Qantas : greed, lies and crashes and how they destroyed the reputation of the world's safest airline [book]

Author: Matthew Benns

"The flying kangaroo was once the natural first choice for travelling Australians. Now it attracts an endless stream of media headlines about mid-air dramas and maintenance breakdowns. ... [This is] the full and frank history of Australia's national airline. It takes you into the boardroom, where golden parachutes are signed off, and onto the hangar floor, where engineers battle accounting cuts to keep planes flying safely." - cover.

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Enterprise supply chain management : integrating best in class processes [book]

Author: Vivek Sehgal
"Provides an enterprise view of the supply chain functions and describes the underlying concepts for these processes, what they achieve, and how they are executed. It covers the planning and execution processes for demand, supply, and logistics management and explains how supply chains are modeled for optimal performance. Written in a clear, concise, and easy-to-understand fashion, drawing examples from diverse industry verticals, this book is equally useful to the business and the IT managers." - from publisher.

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Single point of failure : the 15 laws of supply chain risk management [book]

Author: Gary S. Lynch

"Shows you how everyone is involved in the supply chain itself, often on several levels at one time; how the footprint (the network) of the chain is exposed to an infinite number of constantly changing threats; how weak links in that chain represent threats and vulnerabilities; and how those threats and vulnerabilities can be managed, reduced and eliminated." - page 5.

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Building an efficient national roads system (journal article)
by Max Lay
from ATSE Focus August/September 2009
"We tend to forget how permanent roads are and how ongoing are the benefits and disbenefits that they createRoads are an integral part of our nation's infrastructure. British colonisation in 1788 brought with it the requirement that every piece of subdivided land had to have land access via a public right-of-way. The land was often grudgingly given and was rarely part of any grander transport plan. Thus, almost from the beginning, governments have had to step in and impose a grander vision beyond the farm-to-market needs of individual land owners.
Another major problem has been our inability to control, let alone predict, future land use. State governments need to be much better in the way in which they match land-use controls with economic and social strategies at one extreme and transport plans at the other.Thus, road planning must allow for a range of future scenarios, as today's assumptions and passionately held views are quite likely to be proved wrong. To avoid past parochialism, planning for any new road system must also be done at a level above the immediate region affected by the planning."

The Best New Ideas in Business
by Paul Keegan
from Fortune, Vol 160, No 5 14 September 2009
"The article focuses on the company Zipcar, a car-sharing service. Zipcars are available in several U.S. cities, including Seattle, Washington, San Francisco, California, and New York City, as well as in Britain. Scott Griffith, chief executive officer for Zipcar, said that the company will turn a profit in the third quarter of 2009. "

Starring Alliance
By Louis White
from Management Today May 2008, pp. 18 - 22
"How do you successfully integrate five parent companies to work together on a series of major infrastructure projects? Louis White finds out about Trackstar Alliance who is running with the Queensland Rail South East Queensland Infrastructure Plan."

Victoria’s public transport : assessing the results of privatisation

Allsop, Steve / Institute of Public Affairs
Finds that the privatisation of passenger trains and trams was largely successful, and that it resulted in increased patronage and improvements in reliability.
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Who goes where? : Australia’s freight transport services directories series : Queensland edition
Who Goes Where?
A directory containing local, country and interstate transport operators, and support services such as customs agents and freight brokers.

Now available in Library & Research Services' Reference Collection.