Analyzing risk factors for highway theft in Mexico

In recent years thefts in the Mexican trucking sector have increased, causing huge losses to carriers, so a study to know the risk factors faced by the motor carriers seems pertinent. Security is a relatively recent topic in logistics and supply chain studies, mainly based on conceptual views and qualitative data on operational disruptions in the supply chain and security issues related to terrorism. This article aims to identify variables influencing the risk of trucking robbery in Mexico, providing information to facilitate security assessments of freight, and the planning of security schemes for companies. To identify these risk variables a statistical analysis of the available national information on freight thefts is done, determining a first set of variables to design a survey applied to experts in supply chain security based on the Delphi method. Results allow one to confirm the variables or suggest new ones, showing their influence on the risk.

• Summary URL:
  https://doi.org/10.2495/SAFE130391
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract reprinted with permission from WIT Press.
• Corporate Authors:

  WIT Press

  Ashurst Lodge
  Ashurst, Southampton  United Kingdom  SO40 7AA
• Authors:
  • de la Torre, E
  • Martner, C
  • Olivares, E
  • Moreno, E
• Conference:
  • 5th International Conference on Safety & Security Engineering
  • Location: Rome , Italy
  • Date: 2013-9-17 to 2013-9-19
• Publication Date: 2013

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 10p
• Monograph Title: Safety and Security Engineering V
• Serial:
  • WIT Transactions on the Built Environment
  • Issue Number: 134
  • Publisher: Wessex Institute of Technology
  • ISSN: 1743-3509
  • Serial URL: http://library.witpress.com/pages/listBooks.asp?tID=2

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Motor carriers; Risk analysis; Risk assessment; Security; Supply chain management; Theft; Trucking
• Geographic Terms: Mexico
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Motor Carriers; Security and Emergencies; I70: Traffic and Transport;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01494827
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9781845647445
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 30 2013 4:07PM