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News Release

RAND Study Finds Senior Drivers Less Likely than Youngest Drivers to Cause Accidents — Jul 18, 2007

RAND Study Finds Senior Drivers Less Likely than Youngest Drivers to Cause Accidents.

Report

Freedom and Information: Assessing Publicly Available Data Regarding U.S. Transportation Infrastructure Security — Jul 18, 2007

Describes a framework to guide assessments of the availability of data regarding U.S. anti- and counterterrorism systems, countermeasures, and defenses for planning attacks on the U.S. air, rail, and sea transportation infrastructure.

Research Brief

What Risks Do Older Drivers Pose to Traffic Safety? — Jul 11, 2007

This research brief summarizes a study that concludes older drivers are relatively safe and that targeting restrictive licensing policies at that group will do little to improve overall traffic safety.

Report

Regulating Older Drivers: Are New Policies Needed? — Jul 6, 2007

This paper summarizes the findings and policy implications of a study estimating the relative riskiness of older drivers, concluding that stricter licensing policies targeting that group would likely not improve traffic safety substantially.

News Release

RAND Supply Chain Policy Center to Research Critical Issues in Freight Transportation — May 9, 2007

May 9, 2007 news release: RAND Supply Chain Policy Center to Research Critical Issues in Freight Transportation.

Commentary

Green But Unsafe — Apr 18, 2007

Published commentary by RAND staff: Green But Unsafe, in Wall Street Journal, Europe Edition.

Report

Beyond the Gas Tax: Alternatives for a Greener World — Feb 13, 2007

Testimony presented before the Los Angeles Field Hearing of the National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission on February 21, 2007.

Journal Article

The Modeling of Motorcycle Ownership and Commuter Usage: A UK Study — Jan 1, 2007

This paper presents work, undertaken for the UK Department for Transport, to help determine how policy could affect motorcycle usage.

Journal Article

Elderly Mobility: Demographic and Spatial Analysis of Trip Making in the Hamilton CMA, Canada — Jan 1, 2007

The focus of this paper is on the topic of elderly trip generation and the development of models to help formalise some important relationships between trip-making behaviour and personal, household and contextual variables (such as location).

Journal Article

An Internet-Based Stated Choices Household Survey for Alternative Fuelled Vehicles — Jan 1, 2007

This paper reports on the design and descriptive analysis of a stated choices survey on the demand for alternative fuelled vehicles in the Census Metropolitan Area of Hamilton, conducted through the Internet.

Journal Article

Uncertainty in Traffic Forecasts: Literature Review and New Results for the Netherlands — Jan 1, 2007

Transport model applications that provide a central traffic forecast, and quantify the uncertainty in traffic forecasts as a confidence interval.

Journal Article

Flexible Substitution Patterns in Models of Mode and Time of Day Choice: New Evidence from the UK and the Netherlands — Jan 1, 2007

Describes a study undertaken to determine the relative sensitivity of mode and time of day choice to changes in travel times and costs.

Commentary

Paying for Our Transportation Needs — Oct 25, 2006

Published commentary by RAND staff: Paying for Our Transportation Needs, in the San Diego Union-Tribune.

Commentary

Tighten Up Mass-Transit Security — Aug 22, 2006

Published commentary by RAND staff: Tighten Up Mass-Transit Security, in Newsday.

Report

Benefits of Punctuality for the Paris Suburban Railway Network: Synthesis Report — May 26, 2006

Presents a robust operational methodology that enables the user to assess possible alternative investments aimed at improving the quality of the suburban rail services to and from Paris.

Report

Value of Reliability of Travellers on the Paris Suburban Railway Network: Technical Report on the Data Analysis — May 9, 2006

Presents the estimation results of the models that have been developed to appraise the monetary benefits of various possible ways to improve the regularity of the Paris suburban train network.

Commentary

Securing America's Ports — Mar 26, 2006

Published commentary by RAND staff: Securing America's Ports, in the San Diego Union-Tribune.

Report

The Arc: A Formal Structure for a Palestinian State — Apr 30, 2005

An examination of options and cost estimates for strengthening the housing and transportation infrastructure of a potential future independent Palestinian state in the context of a large and rapidly growing Palestinian population.

Report

Terrorism and Rail Security — Dec 21, 2004

Testimony presented to the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee on March 23, 2004.

Report

Terrorism and the Security of Public Surface Transportation — Dec 21, 2004

Testimony presented to the Senate Committee on Judiciary on April 8, 2004.

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