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Setting the Agenda for an Evidence-based Olympics — 28 November 2007
A new RAND Europe study examines the key policy issues relating to the 2012 Olympic Games and to London as its host city. It is designed to provide planners and other policy-makers with an evidence base on which to make sound and informed decisions, culminating in a safe and successful outcome with long-lasting benefits to London.
RAND 2012 Olympics Web Site
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Park and ride schemes can effectively reduce urban congestion — 02 November 2007
Park-and-ride schemes can be effective as a means to reduce car travel within congested city centres. Olympic organisers for London 2012 Games have recently announced plans to ban all car travel, making consideration of using Park-and-ride sites more critical. In this REsource note RAND Europe describes findings from research related to the feasibility and growth in demand of P&R sites.
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Developing transport demand models — 01 May 2007
As well as presenting the Platform's achievements, the report also analyses the quality of the Platform members' monitoring practices. A quantitative scoring system was used to assess the quality of practices based on their relevance to members and their potential for improvement. The quantitative analysis suggests that the monitoring being undertaken is just below a standard defined as "adequate".
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Value of Reliability of Travellers on the Paris Suburban Railway Network — 19 May 2006
The development of a robust method to appraise the monetary benefits of different possible ways to improve regularity of the Paris suburban train network required values for its level of reliability. These values-of-reliability were obtained from a large-scale Stated Preference (SP) data set that was collected specifically for this project. This technical report presents the estimation results of models developed using this data set.
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Evaluation of the London Patient Choice Project — 01 July 2005
The London Patient Choice Project (LPCP) was established to offer choices to patients who were clinically eligible for treatment and had been waiting for treatment at an NHS London hospital beyond a target waiting time. This report covers the choice process and the trade-offs patients are willing to make in order to obtain earlier treatment.
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PRISM Used to Test Future UK Highway and Road Scenarios — 2002-2004
"PRISM (Policy Responsive Integrated Strategy Model) was developed by RAND Europe and Mott MacDonald, an international consultancy group, between 2002-2004 as the new strategic model for the West Midlands area, supported by the 7 District Authorities, the Highways Agency and CENTRO. The model is a state-of-the-art disaggregate demand model, with significant detail in zoning and networks, and representing the choice between eight different travel modes. The demand models, developed by RAND Europe, contain a high level of segmentation, enabling the impact of a wide range of transport policies to be assessed on different groups of society.
Since 2004, the PRISM Joint Applications Team (JAT) in Birmingham has been applying the model intensively to test a range of future scenarios, spanning the assessment of new metro extensions to land-use policies aimed at regenerating the Black Country area. RAND Europe has provided on-going support to JAT to assist in interpreting model outputs, and to up-date and improve the model over time. Recently, the demand model has been improved to include an income segmentation to enable demand for road pricing policies to be modelled more accurately.
PRISM Site (www.prism-wm.com)
New Dutch Safety Investigation Board to be based on RAND Europe recommendations — 25 Oct 2001
Drawing on its earlier experience with defining a structure for the Dutch Transport Safety Board, RAND Europe has proposed a structure for a new Safety Investigation Board.
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Acquisition of Hague Consulting Group enhances RAND Europe's capabilities in modelling and forecasting transport demand — 15 Jan 2001
RAND Europe has strengthened its applied research, analysis, and modelling capabilities in the fields of transport and infrastructure through an agreement to acquire HCG.
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