Surface Transportation

Journal Article

Alternative Tree Logit Models: Comments on a Paper of Koppelman and Wen

The paper by Koppelman and Wen (1998) on nested logit structures (subsequently referred to as K&W), draws attention to alternative formulations of nested or 'tree' logit models.

Journal Article

The Effects of No-Fault Auto Insurance on Driver Behavior and Auto Accidents in the United States

Research Brief

No-Fault Automobile Insurance Unrelated To Accident Rates: New Research Controls for Bias that Tainted Previous Studies

Study refutes a common criticism of no-fault auto insurance -- that it may increase the accident rate by reducing drivers' incentives to drive carefully.

Report

Modellen voor een TOR: Models for a Transportation Safety Board

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.

Report

FORWARD: Freight Options for Road, Water, and Rail for the Dutch: Final Report

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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On the implementation of research findings in surface transportation

On the implementation of research findings in surface transportation

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Future Soviet Investment in Transportation, Energy, and Environmental Protection

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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NATO Inland Transport as a Potential Rear-Area Target System: Lessons from German Experience in World War II

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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Can Land Use Management Reduce Energy Consumption for Transportation?

The author explores the notion that if land use management can be applied to the problem of energy conservation, it would be by changes in the location of homes, jobs, recreational amenities, etc., so as to minimize the distances people would have to travel.

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Energy Alternatives for California: The Current Crisis. III. Allocation of Scarce Supplies.

Discussion of two important aspects of allocation policy. The first is the overall distribution of energy supplies among different energy products and among four major sectors of the economy: residential, commercial, industrial, and transportation....

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Predicting Changes in Urban Form from Transportation System Changes: A Proposed Methodology.

What effect does transportation have upon a city's growth? This study addresses the question of how to predict changes in urban form caused by changes in transportation system characteristics. Two primary dimensions of urban form are considered: (1...

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The Very High Speed Transit System

Description of a very high speed transit (VHST) system operating in its own rarefied atmosphere in evacuated tubes in underground tunnels.

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Freight Transport in Urban Areas : Issues for Research and Action.

A synthesis of the questions raised during a freight seminar of the 1967 RAND/HUD/DOT Summer Program in Urban Transportation, revised and republished for the December 1970 Conference on Urban Commodity Flow sponsored by the U.S. Department of Transpo...

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The Automobile's Role in the Future.

Explores the competition between various modes of travel as a function of range, and the choice between travel or electronics for communicating. An evolutionary development of our means of travel is described that would introduce new concepts for im...

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The Possibilities of Developing an Effective National Transport System in the 1970s

Suggestions for basic transportation research and a preview of possible developments.

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The Potential of V/STOL Aircraft for Passenger Travel in the New York Region

Consideration of the use of V/STOL aircraft to reduce air traffic congestion at the major New York area airports while increasing overall terminal capacity.

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Medical Problems and Physical Fitness as Related to Occurrence of Traffic Accidents

A survey of the literature on medical problems and physical fitness as they relate to the occurrence of traffic accidents.

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Modeling the Traffic-Safety System

A model for analyzing traffic accidents that relates unsafe driving to operational and environmental variables, the production of injuries and property damage, and the safety measures that might reduce the incidence and severity of accidents.

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A Statistical-Engineering Approach to Estimating Railway Cost Functions.

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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Optimal Train Velocity and Size.

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...