RAND research addresses the challenges of developing, managing, and protecting energy, transportation, water, communications, and other critical infrastructure throughout the world.
Measures the use of public transportation by students in the Netherlands who own a Public Transport Pass, and analyses and expands upon the resulting data.
Measures the use of public transportation by students in the Netherlands who own a Public Transport Pass, and analyses and expands upon the resulting data.
Estimates two sets of models of the choice of time of travel with the objective of obtaining maximum understanding of the circumstances influencing the choice of time-of-day of travel through the detailed models.
Investigates the possibilities of implementing instruments developed in the United States, such as SafeStat, to increase road traffic safety, and investigates developing a similar instrument for prioritizing carriers for inspection in the Netherlands.
Alternatives to closure of Pennsylvania Avenue for protecting the White House.
Spending by the U.S. government and industry on activities to prevent the predicted year 2000 (Y2K) crisis amounted to approximately $100 billion. Debate continues over whether this massive effort precluded catastrophic system failures or the fears were overstated to begin with. This report presents the findings of a RAND study that attempted to shed light on this debate.
Federally funded, high-risk, capital-intensive research and development is critical to ensure the flow of innovation that provides the basis for a sustainable competitive advantage for U.S. vendors.
This issue paper discusses the critical issues involved in designing the homeland security organization and in achieving its goals.
Is the FAA's accelerated schedule for implementing air travel safety improvements a reasonable goal?
Is the FAA's accelerated schedule for implementing air travel safety improvements feasible?
The authors define homeland security and its mission areas, provide a methodology for assessing homeland security response options, and review relevant trend data for each mission area.
Ranges and airspace for Air Force training purposes are scarce resources. RAND and the Air Combat Command developed an analytic structure containing a joint mission framework, training requirements, infrastructure requirements, and the current infrastructure
American firms have begun to operate their own imaging satellite systems, aiming to become an important part of the U.S. commercial remote sensing industry.
Summary of Federal Construction, Building, and Housing Related Research & Development in FY1999
Disposal Options for Ships
The largest U.S. municipal utility, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (DWP), asked RAND to consider possible changes in governance that could improve its decisionmaking and operations while maintaining public ownership.
Wide access to satellite imagery and related products has expanded rapidly since the end of the Cold War.
Ranges and airspace for Air Force training purposes are scarce resources for which the Air Force must present a rigorously defensible claim.
Netwar includes conflicts waged, on the one hand, by terrorists, criminals, gangs, and ethnic extremists; and by civil-society activists on the other. What distinguishes netwar is the networked organizational structure of its practitioners -- with many groups actually being leaderless -- and their quickness in coming together in swarming attacks.
Testimony presented before the Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, Restructuring and the District of Columbia, U.S. Senate on October 10, 2001.
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