Notes prior to microPublishing

• Return on Investment
  • Buy and operate a vehicle
  • Analysis over time
  • Opportunity Costs
  • As part of a larger strategy
    • More of an unknown

Chapter One: Drive On

• Start with just Trucks and Busses
• Sec 1 - the mechanics
• Sec 2 - the "cost" side
• sec 3 - understanding potential returns

• sec 4 - Operation Management

  • how differ from strategy

  • how to get good
  • ways to leverage (Shared Orders)

Chapter on Investment Alternatives

• IRR vs Payback

• focus on cash flow

Map Geometry

• paid by time
• think in trips-per-month

• hills extend time

Supply Chain

• Concept
  • What upstream firms are you dependent upon
• Vertical Integration
  • Controlling every link in the chain
  • Simple: buses feed airport
  • Complex: coal and iron to steel, steel to goods, goods to market
    • Risk of downturn in one link - say coal mine peters out - impacting all the other infrastructure investment

Publishing Note

• Correct Screen Capture
  Gamma correction to 1.6 in Snagit