Supply Chain Challenges and Solutions amid COVID-19 (2025)
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"Annotated Bibliography." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2025. Supply Chain Challenges and Solutions amid COVID-19. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/29153.
Annotated Bibliography
The information in this report references relevant reports from NCHRP, U.S. DOT, FHWA, and FEMA on the topics of supply chain operations and transportation system resilience. A summary of several of these reports follows. While some of these reports were published pre-pandemic (prior to 2020), the supply chain models, and terminology are still relevant.
| Title | Source | Publication Date | Brief / Abstract | COVID-19 Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Supply Chain Risk Management: Reducing Threats to Key U.S. Supply Chains | NCSC | September 2020 | This trifold brochure defines what a key supply chain is. Identifies what are supply chain risks and identifies three focus areas to reduce threats to key U.S. supply chains. | ✓ |
| America’s Strategy to Secure the Supply Chain for a Robust Clean Energy Transition | U.S. DOE | February 2022 | Report summarizes the key elements of the energy supply chain as well as the strategies the U.S. Government is starting to employ to address them. Additionally, it describes recommendations for congressional action. | ✓ |
| “Covid-19 checkpoints targeting out-of-state residents draw complaints and legal scrutiny” | The Washington Post | April 2020 | Newspaper article discussing the constitutional questions raised by efforts to protect local residents from the spread of COVID-19 and the resulting decline in travel. | ✓ |
| DOT’s Tracking of Aviation Imports and Potential Impacts of Disruptions | U.S. DOT | December 2022 | Study to (1) determine how U.S. DOT is tracking imported aviation products and (2) identify potential impacts on the U.S. aviation industry’s supply chains if imported aviation products are unavailable in the future. | ✓ |
| Supply Chain Assessment of the Transportation Industrial Base: Freight and Logistics | U.S. DOT | February 2022 | A review of the transportation and logistics industrial base, with topics including building resilient supply chains to address disruptions, responding to current supply chain disruptions, roles of the federal government and its partners, and recommendations for resilient supply chains. | ✓ |
Suggested Citation:
"Annotated Bibliography." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2025. Supply Chain Challenges and Solutions amid COVID-19. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/29153.
| Title | Source | Publication Date | Brief / Abstract | COVID-19 Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Supply Chain Resilience Guide | FEMA/DHS | April 2019 | Guide reflects on the issues explored and the lessons learned from the process of enhancing supply chain resilience. Specific suggestions are made related to research, outreach, and action. | |
| Behavioral/Agent-Based Supply Chain Modeling Research Synthesis and Guide | U.S. DOT/FHWA | March 2018 | Project evaluated seven state and regional agencies and summarizes the scope and details of their behavioral-based supply chain freight models for the purpose of supporting the broader application of these methods to forecast future freight flows. | |
| Supply Chain Resilience: Agencies Are Taking Steps to Expand Diplomatic Engagement and Coordinate with International Partners | U.S. GAO | February 2023 | A report (GAO-23-105534) to congressional committees by GAO on its ongoing monitoring and oversight efforts related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The report describes (1) diplomatic efforts by the Departments of Commerce and State and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative to strengthen supply chains since the onset of the pandemic, and (2) challenges in coordinating with allies and partners. | ✓ |
| Don’t Abandon Your Just-In-Time Supply Chain, Revamp It | Harvard Business Review (Sodhi and Choi) | October 2022 | The article discusses challenges to the viability of just-in-time global supply chains (COVID, natural disasters, war, etc.) and posits that changing the system so it can better handle uncertainties is preferable to a complete rebuild. | ✓ |
| How did COVID-19 affect logistics and supply chain processes? Immediate, short and medium-term evidence from some industrial fields of Italy | International Journal of Production Economics (Rinaldi and Bottani) | May 2023 | This paper provides empirical evidence on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on logistics and supply chain processes of five industrial sectors of Italy, namely food and beverage, machine manufacturing, metal mechanical industry, logistics and transport, and textile and fashion. | ✓ |
| Mainstreaming System Resilience Concepts into Transportation Agencies: A Guide | NCHRP | 2021 | Guide that incorporates practical, effective methods for measuring risk reduction and increased resilience to be used by state DOTs and other entities to organize their plans and programs at the enterprise level. | ✓ |
Suggested Citation:
"Annotated Bibliography." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2025. Supply Chain Challenges and Solutions amid COVID-19. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/29153.
| Title | Source | Publication Date | Brief / Abstract | COVID-19 Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Incorporating Resilience into Transportation Planning and Assessment | Rand Corporation (Weilant et al.) | 2019 | Report explores how to incorporate resilience into long-term transportation planning for state departments of transportation and metropolitan planning organizations and to inform the Transportation Research Board (TRB) about findings. Considers not only the specific hazards associated with extreme weather events but also all hazards, focusing on stresses to transportation systems that arise naturally but might be exacerbated by disturbances to the system, such as congestion. | |
| Integrating Resilience Concepts and Strategies into Transportation Planning: A Guide (2023) | NCHRP | 2023 | Guide provides planning and policy professionals with six key building blocks to successfully integrate resiliency into transportation planning policy, analysis, and decision-making: Leadership and Agency Structure, Capacity and Competency, Collaboration and Communication, Resource Requirements, RnR Assessment, and Business Processes. | ✓ |
| Methodologies to Estimate the Economic Impacts of Disruptions to the Goods Movement System | NCHRP | 2012 | NCHRP Report 732 describes the impacts of bottlenecks and interruptions to the flow of goods through the nation’s major freight corridors and intermodal connectors, the dynamics of that flow in response to disruptions, and the full economic impact on public and private entities beyond just the critical infrastructure and the carriers that depend on that flow. | |
| Freight Transportation Resilience in Response to Supply Chain Disruptions | NCFRP (Meyer et al.) | 2019 | The purpose of NCFRP Project 50 was to develop guidance for stakeholders to plan for, mitigate, and adapt to disruptions to supply chains with the aim of enhancing freight transportation system resilience. | |
| Transportation Statistics Annual Report 2023 | BTS | 2023 | This report is published annually by BTS to identify the current state of transportation, including freight and supply chain. This 2023 report includes reference to emerging issues, including the state of the system during COVID-19 recovery and the impact of COVID-19 on passenger travel. | ✓ |
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