Report
Piracy and sea-borne terrorism have been on the rise since 2000. While the United States has spearheaded several initiatives to improve maritime security, policymakers should consider four additional measures to safeguard the world's oceans.
Report
Building on prior RAND research, this monograph explores the need for and retention of technical skills in the UK's naval industrial base, particularly among designers and engineers involved with surface ship and submarine acquisition and support.
Report
The authors evaluate roles for small ships in theater security cooperation, present a concept of operations for employing such ships, describe necessary ship and crew characteristics, and survey classes of suitable vessels.
Journal Article
The popularity of light-duty trucks has increased with important implications for air quality, traffic accidents and gasoline demand.
Journal Article
This paper examines the influence of family structure, socio-economic characteristics and accessibility at the place of residence on the number of cars owned by a household.
Journal Article
This paper offers a critical overview of the full spectrum of household discrete choice-based automobile demand models.
Journal Article
This paper compares multinomial logit, ordered logit, and ordered probit car ownership models through a number of formal evaluation measures and empirical analysis of three data sets, with results.
News Release
U.S. communities depend on reliable, safe, and secure rail systems, but such systems are vulnerable to terrorist attack. A framework developed for rail security planners and policymakers can help guide cost-effective plans to secure their rail systems from attacks.
Report
This book explains a framework that security planners and policymakers can use for cost-effective rail-security planning. It focuses specifically on terrorism risk, which is a function of threat, vulnerability, and consequences.
News Release
Planning a successful Olympics in London in 2012 will require organizers to learn from the successes and problems of past games in the areas of transportation, infrastructure and security.
News Release
Cars and light trucks powered by advanced diesel technology or hybrid technology can provide larger societal benefits than traditional gasoline-powered automobiles.
Journal Article
Review of the theoretical and applied literature on the use of logsums as a measure of consumer surplus change in project appraisal and evaluation.
Research Brief
Describes some of the work that RAND Europe has been undertaking with UK clients to investigate road pricing.
Report
Analyzes the feasibility of sustaining a Marine Corps ground element ashore and simultaneously sustaining Army elements ashore from a sea base or moving Army elements ashore from the sea base in a reasonable period.
Commentary
In Support of the Congestion Charge, in Washingtonpost.com
Research Brief
This fact sheet describes a framework for assessing the availability of publicly available information for planning attacks on the U.S. air, rail, and sea transportation infrastructure and the results of applying the framework in a red-team exercise.
Past Event
What policy options are available to mitigate Los Angeles' notoriously congested roadways? RAND transportation expert Martin Wachs and a panel of regional stakeholders and policymakers will discuss realistic approaches to addressing the region's worsening congestion.
News Release
RAND Study Finds Senior Drivers Less Likely than Youngest Drivers to Cause Accidents.
Report
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
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.
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