Efficient railway transportation helps ensure both population mobility and a functioning supply chain, but railway reliability is often threatened by inadequate capacity, aging infrastructure, increasing freight costs, and potential security threats. RAND researchers have explored and recommended different approaches to modernizing rail systems and keeping them safe.
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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.
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Testimony presented to the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee on March 23, 2004.
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Published commentary by RAND staff.
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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.
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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.
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RAND Europe conducted an analysis to characterize the work of safety boards to enable comparisons among existing and proposed organizational structures, identify candidate structures for the TOR, and compare these candidate structures.
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This report describes the results of a major transportation research study that was performed for the Netherlands Ministry of Transport, Public Works, and Water Management by the European-American Center for Policy Analysis (EAC).
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This study outlines the current state of the transportation, energy, and environmental protection sectors in the Soviet economy. It also projects investment schedules for these sectors.
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This Note provides a brief analytical review of the results of World War II allied air attacks against the German waterway and rail transportation systems.
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Statistical and engineering methods both possess advantages and disadvantages in the determination of cost behavior. The two approaches are combined to form a statistical-engineering approach to estimating railway cost functions. The statistical-engi...
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Development of a model for finding the optimal train velocity (often an upper bound for passenger trains, but attainable by freight trains) and size for a railroad line with constant gradient, so as to minimize the sum of operating and passenger time...
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Detailed analysis of the more important constraints on the transportation sector of the Indian economy. It shows how useful the sectoral approach can be in determining the obstacles to economic development in less-developed countries, as opposed to ...
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A formulation of railroad interdiction problems in terms of network theory.
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A method which estimates the maximal steady-state flow of traffic through a railway network by applying gaming techniques to certain classes of mathematical problems....
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A descriptive survey of employment, traffic volume, and labor productivity in USSR railroads from 1928-1950.
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A study of the ability of a railroad freight yard to receive, hold, and deliver freight cars upon order.
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Ph.D. in English, University of California, Berkeley; B.A. in English, University of California, Riverside
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