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RAND Europe is expanding the original traffic model it developed for Copenhagen to include time-of-day choice for car drivers. Doing so will allow city planners to assess the effectiveness of different charging policies aimed at reducing congestion levels.

http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/qitoolkit/ 2012-01-24T15:58:00.000-05:00 2012-01-24T15:58:00.000-05:00

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has released a free toolkit designed to guide hospitals in using the AHRQ Patient Safety Indicators and Inpatient Quality Indicators to improve hospital performance. A RAND Health team, in partnership with UHC, developed and field-tested the toolkit.

http://lasurvey.rand.org 2012-01-23T23:01:00.000-05:00 2012-01-23T23:01:00.000-05:00

The Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey (L.A.FANS) studies adults, teens, children, and neighborhoods in Los Angeles County. Survey data were collected in 2000-2001 and 2006-2008 and are available to researchers for public use.

http://www.rand.org/labor/aging/rsi.html 2012-01-23T22:00:00.000-05:00 2012-01-23T22:00:00.000-05:00

RAND Summer Institute is an annual event sponsored by the RAND Labor and Population Center for the Study of Aging; RSI's two conferences on aging are sponsored by the National Institute on Aging and the NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research and convene in Santa Monica.

http://www.rand.org/labor/centers/rapid.html 2012-01-23T15:31:00.000-05:00 2012-01-23T15:31:00.000-05:00

Understanding the factors influencing economic growth and development is crucial to enhancing the human welfare of a nation. Research and Policy in International Development (RAPID) is a research center committed to fulfilling this objective.

http://www.rand.org/labor/centers/clasp.html 2011-12-19T10:42:00.000-05:00 2011-12-19T10:42:00.000-05:00

The Center for Latin American Social Policy conducts research throughout Latin America and the Latin American population in the United States in the areas of aging, social determinants and consequences of health, saving for retirement, social security coverage, labor market dynamics, and migration.

http://www.rand.org/ise/projects/bioemissions.html 2011-12-16T00:00:00.000-05:00 2011-12-16T00:00:00.000-05:00

CUBE 2.0, an update of the 2010 release of the 1.0 version, allows users to estimate the "farm-to-gate" greenhouse gas emissions of biomass feedstocks for energy production, as well as the uncertainty in these emissions.

http://www.rand.org/news/press/2011/12/14.html 2011-12-14T11:07:00.000-05:00 2011-12-14T11:07:00.000-05:00

A new online tool, called the "Unintended Consequences Guide," is available from the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to help hospitals and other health care organizations anticipate, avoid, and address problems that can occur when adopting and using electronic health records.

http://www.rand.org/randeurope/research/projects/social-impact-bonds.html 2011-12-02T11:24:00.000-05:00 2011-12-02T11:24:00.000-05:00

The world's first Social Impact Bond, an innovative payment-by-results mechanism to fund public services, was implemented in a prison in Peterborough in eastern England. It aims to reduce reoffending by prisoners who have served short custodial sentences.

http://ca.rand.org/ 2011-11-17T20:30:00.000-05:00 2011-11-17T20:30:00.000-05:00

RAND California contains statistics on unemployment, crime rates, school district expenditures, dropout and completion rates, energy consumption, air quality, and more. Much of the data is available at the national, state, county, and city levels.

http://www.promisingpractices.net/resources/emergencyprep/ 2011-11-10T17:15:00.000-05:00 2011-11-10T17:15:00.000-05:00

The Promising Practices Network has developed an emergency planning guide that presents high-priority preparedness activities and documents to help child-serving organizations customize their emergency plans.

http://www.rand.org/multi/military/innovative-practices/catalog-of-programs.html 2011-11-09T12:03:00.000-05:00 2011-11-09T12:03:00.000-05:00

The U.S. Department of Defense sponsors many programs for servicemembers and their families. RAND compiled a searchable online catalog of 211 programs that address psychological health and traumatic brain injury.

http://www.rand.org/randeurope.html 2011-11-04T15:38:00.000-05:00 2011-11-04T15:38:00.000-05:00

RAND Europe is an independent not-for-profit research institute with offices in the UK and Belgium. Its research portfolio complements RAND's and also includes choice modeling, evaluation and performance management, innovation and technology, and more.

http://www.rand.org/labor/centers/befi.html 2011-10-13T11:24:00.000-05:00 2011-10-13T11:24:00.000-05:00

The RAND Behavioral Finance (BeFi) Forum is a collective of academic, financial, and government leaders who meet regularly in person and via web seminars to foster cutting-edge behavioral research for practical application. BeFi's mission is to help consumers make better financial decisions.

http://www.rand.org/law-business-regulation/centers/civil-justice.html 2011-10-03T21:30:00.000-05:00 2011-10-03T21:30:00.000-05:00

The RAND Institute for Civil Justice (ICJ) conducts research on all aspects of civil justice, from trends in litigation and jury verdicts to punitive damages, compensation systems, and alternative dispute resolution. Directly or indirectly, civil justice issues have an impact on us all.

http://www.rand.org/gulf-states/policy-spotlights/stafford-act-reforms.html 2011-10-01T15:01:00.000-05:00 2011-10-01T15:01:00.000-05:00

Recent proposed reforms to the Stafford Act (improving disaster recovery capability) and the National Disaster Recovery Framework (a guide to cooperation between federal agencies) cluster around five key areas where RAND has relevant studies offering additional insight and context.

http://www.rand.org/randeurope/research/projects/illicit-drug-market-in-europe.html 2011-09-19T09:59:00.000-05:00 2011-09-19T09:59:00.000-05:00

To further analyze Europe's illicit drug market and the EU's responses to it, DPRC and RAND Europe are teaming with European partners to expand their original 2009 research on the global drug market.

http://www.rand.org/randeurope/research/innovation_policy/science-policy-research.html 2011-09-01T10:53:00.000-05:00 2011-09-01T10:53:00.000-05:00

How does policy support science and how does science in turn support policy? What works in terms of funding science and in maximizing academic, social and economic 'payback' from investment in science? RAND Europe is a leader in understanding the returns from different kinds of investment in science and research.

http://www.rand.org/health/projects/compare.html 2011-07-20T11:28:00.000-05:00 2011-07-20T11:28:00.000-05:00

Policymakers are facing new challenges as they implement the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). RAND COMPARE is a modeling tool that simulates the impact of implementation decisions on insurance coverage, premiums, and health care spending.

http://www.rand.org/labor/aging.html 2011-05-25T22:43:00.000-05:00 2011-05-25T22:43:00.000-05:00

The RAND Center for the Study of Aging has conducted objective, independent, interdisciplinary research on aging and the elderly for more than 20 years. It improves public policy through primary data collection as well as secondary data analysis.