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     <title>RAND: Thomas Light</title>
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   <title type="html">Optimal Highway Design and User Welfare Under Value Pricing</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20090926.html</id>
   <published>2009-01-01T00:00:00Z</published>
   <updated>2009-01-01T00:00:00Z</updated>
   <summary type="html">This paper investigates the optimal design of highways operated under a form of congestion pricing called value pricing.</summary>
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   <title type="html">In Search of Effective and Viable Policies to Reduce Greenhouse Gases</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20090529.html</id>
   <published>2009-01-01T00:00:00Z</published>
   <updated>2009-01-01T00:00:00Z</updated>
   <summary type="html">This article discusses research into policies to manage greenhouse gases in the U.S. Debates in the U.S. Congress regarding the distribution of economic impacts associated with different mechanisms designed to encourage the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions are considered.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Updating Qatar&apos;s School Transportation System</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9642.html</id>
   <published>2012-02-13T08:45:00Z</published>
   <updated>2012-02-13T08:45:00Z</updated>
   <summary type="html">Describes a vision for updating Qatar&apos;s school transportation system and identifies strategies for achieving the proposed vision.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Pricing Strategies for NASA Wind-Tunnel Facilities</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR999.html</id>
   <published>2011-10-04T10:45:00Z</published>
   <updated>2011-10-04T10:45:00Z</updated>
   <summary type="html">The authors explore six potential approaches to pricing the use of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) wind-tunnel test facilities, and they evaluate each approach against three criteria -- efficiency, fiscal impact, and fairness.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Analysis of Government Accountability Office Bid Protests in Air Force Source Selections over the Past Two Decades</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR883.html</id>
   <published>2012-02-22T10:30:00Z</published>
   <updated>2012-02-22T10:30:00Z</updated>
   <summary type="html">The authors used administrative databases on Air Force procurements to analyze trends and identify factors contributing to bid protest activity and outcomes.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Equity and Congestion Pricing: A Review of the Evidence</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR680.html</id>
   <published>2009-05-21T16:35:00Z</published>
   <updated>2009-05-21T16:35:00Z</updated>
   <summary type="html">Some congestion pricing projects have been undertaken to address traffic congestion, but some worry that congestion pricing is inequitable. This report looks at the evidence that might support or negate this claim.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Does Imported Oil Threaten U.S. National Security?</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9448.html</id>
   <published>2009-05-05T17:14:00Z</published>
   <updated>2009-05-05T17:14:00Z</updated>
   <summary type="html">U.S. reliance on oil risks the economic costs of disruption in global oil supplies. The United States would reduce the national security costs of importing oil by supporting well-functioning oil markets and imposing an oil excise tax.</summary>
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   <title type="html">High Occupancy Toll Lane Performance Under Alternative Pricing Policies</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP51100.html</id>
   <published>2012-01-01T12:00:00Z</published>
   <updated>2012-01-01T12:00:00Z</updated>
   <summary type="html">This paper explores how alternative pricing and operating policies influence revenue generation, level of service, and travel time costs for high occupancy toll (HOT) lane facilities.</summary>
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   <link rel="related" type="text/xhtml" hreflang="en" title="Read More" href="http://www.trforum.org/journal/downloads/2012v51n2_04_HighOccupancyToll.pdf" />
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   <title type="html">Evaluating Options for U.S. Greenhouse-Gas Mitigation Using Multiple Criteria</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers/OP252.html</id>
   <published>2009-04-03T16:34:00Z</published>
   <updated>2009-04-03T16:34:00Z</updated>
   <summary type="html">This paper develops a framework for evaluating U.S. greenhouse gas-mitigation policy balancing several criteria, beyond just cost-effectiveness, to reflect institutional and political realities and the policies&apos; effects on producers and consumers.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Government Accountability Office Bid Protests in Air Force Source Selections</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/documented_briefings/DB603.html</id>
   <published>2012-02-22T09:45:00Z</published>
   <updated>2012-02-22T09:45:00Z</updated>
   <summary type="html">Recent bid protests have caused large disruptions in resource and operational planning in the Air Force, even leading to the cancellation of the Combat Search and Rescue helicopter program, and the Air Force needs tactics to counter such protests.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Qatar&apos;s School Transportation System</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG1136z1.html</id>
   <published>2012-03-28T09:45:00Z</published>
   <updated>2012-03-28T09:45:00Z</updated>
   <summary type="html">Assesses stakeholder perspectives on Qatar&apos;s school transportation system (STS), identifies a vision and goals for the STS, and discusses strategies to achieve the vision and better align Qatar&apos;s STS with international norms. This is the Arabic-language version.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Government Accountability Office Bid Protests in Air Force Source Selections</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG1077.html</id>
   <published>2012-02-22T10:15:00Z</published>
   <updated>2012-02-22T10:15:00Z</updated>
   <summary type="html">Recent bid protests have caused large disruptions in resource and operational planning in the Air Force, even leading to the cancellation of the Combat Search and Rescue helicopter program, and the Air Force needs tactics to counter such protests.</summary>
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   <link rel="related" type="text/xhtml" hreflang="en" title="Read More" href="http://www.rand.org/pubs/documented_briefings/DB603.html" />
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   <title type="html">Imported Oil and U.S. National Security</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG838.html</id>
   <published>2009-04-20T12:35:00Z</published>
   <updated>2009-04-20T12:35:00Z</updated>
   <summary type="html">The United States imports three-fifths of the oil it consumes. This book evaluates possible links between these imports and U.S. national security and assesses related potential policies.</summary>
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   <link rel="related" type="text/xhtml" hreflang="en" title="Read More" href="http://www.rand.org/news/press/2009/05/11.html" />
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   <title type="html">Managing Spent Nuclear Fuel</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG970.html</id>
   <published>2010-11-05T11:59:00Z</published>
   <updated>2010-11-05T11:59:00Z</updated>
   <summary type="html">The United States has yet to implement a strategy for managing spent nuclear fuel. This book examines technical and institutional approaches to spent fuel management and highlights policy implications of pursuing alternative strategies.</summary>
   <link rel="alternate" type="text/xhtml" hreflang="en" title="Read More" href="http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG970.html" />
   
   <link rel="related" type="text/xhtml" hreflang="en" title="Read More" href="http://www.rand.org/news/press/2010/11/15.html" />
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   <title type="html">Advancing Aeronautics</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG997.html</id>
   <published>2011-02-17T11:45:00Z</published>
   <updated>2011-02-17T11:45:00Z</updated>
   <summary type="html">Develops a unified decisionmaking approach for selecting aeronautics research agendas that quantifies the social and economic reasons for the research, balances competing perspectives, and enables transparent explanation of the resulting decisions.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Balancing Environment and Development: Costs, Revenues, and Benefits of the Western Riverside County Multiple Species Habitat Conservation Plan</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG816.html</id>
   <published>2008-10-18T19:12:00Z</published>
   <updated>2008-10-18T19:12:00Z</updated>
   <summary type="html">A large habitat-conservation reserve is being created in western Riverside County to mitigate development effects on threatened and endangered species. This monograph examines the plan&apos;s costs, revenues, and effects on the permitting process.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Ending F-22A Production: Costs and Industrial Base Implications of Alternative Options</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG797.html</id>
   <published>2010-02-10T16:26:00Z</published>
   <updated>2010-02-10T16:26:00Z</updated>
   <summary type="html">Evaluates the costs and industrial base implications of alternative shutdown options for the F-22A program after the last production aircraft is delivered.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Making Congestion Pricing Equitable</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20110014.html</id>
   <published>2011-01-01T00:00:00Z</published>
   <updated>2011-01-01T00:00:00Z</updated>
   <summary type="html">Identifies and assesses ways of making congestion pricing equitable.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Commercial Intratheater Airlift</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR1313.html</id>
   <published>2013-04-08T09:45:00Z</published>
   <updated>2013-04-08T09:45:00Z</updated>
   <summary type="html">Intratheater airlift delivers critical and time-sensitive supplies to deployed forces, but is it cost effective to use commercial, rather than organic Air Force, aircraft to supply this airlift?</summary>
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   <title type="html">Qatar&apos;s School Transportation System</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG1136.html</id>
   <published>2012-02-13T08:45:00Z</published>
   <updated>2012-02-13T08:45:00Z</updated>
   <summary type="html">Assesses stakeholder perspectives on Qatar&apos;s school transportation system (STS), identifies a vision and goals for the STS, and discusses strategies to achieve the vision and better align Qatar&apos;s STS with international norms.</summary>
   <link rel="alternate" type="text/xhtml" hreflang="en" title="Read More" href="http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG1136.html" />
   
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