The Center for the Study and Improvement of Regulation (CSIR) is a joint research center in the Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University and the Institute for Risk Analysis and Risk Communication at the University of Washington.

In the News: Be careful at dusk! Seth Borenstein reports that pedestrain fatality risks nearly triple this week with the earlier sunset.

This information is from TrafficSTATS, an interactive website that CSIR developed to allow users to explore and compare travel fatality risks. This CSIR project has has been receiving national attention:

Coverage of the site release in January, 2007:

Visit our Research page for more CSIR work on travel risks.

CSIR Director Paul Fischbeck unveils a shocker -- taxes for many residents would decrease using the 2006 assessment figures.

Elizabeth Wilson and David Gerard co-edited a volume on the technical, social, and regulatory aspects of CCS.

Business Week discusses technology innovation management and the "new" engineer. CIT Dean Pradeep Khosla and CSIR's David Gerard weigh in.

Paul Fischbeck and Chad Schafer talk about the odds of winning the lottery.