The Center for the Study and Improvement of Regulation is an interdisciplinary research center in the Department of Engineering & Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. CSIR research and teaching encompasses many dimensions of the regulatory process, including documentation and quantification of how the regulatory process works, stakeholder involvement, the use science and technical information to set standards, and the implementation and enforcement of regulations. In cooperation with the Information Systems Program, CSIR is developing a number of interactive tools in areas traffic safety, mortality risk, vehicle technology, and hospital admissions.

TrafficSTATS is an interactive website that CSIR developed to allow users to explore and compare travel fatality risks. The project has received national attention:

Coverage of the site release in January, 2007:

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

President Obama and California Governor Schwarzenneger have championed steep increases in CAFE standards. David Gerard comments in US News & World Report, the Financial Times and at Organizations and Markets. Gerard and Lester Lave have a paper on fuel efficiency standards at the Reg-Markets Center.

CSIR is working with the CCS Regulatory Project to develop policy recommendations for this emerging technology. Elizabeth Wilson and David Gerard co-edited a volume on technical and regulatory aspects of CCS.

Britney McCoy presented work on "upset" emissions at the Association for Public Policy and Management annual meetings.

Business Week talks to CIT Dean Pradeep Khosla and David Gerard about the masters in Engineering & Technology Innovation Management. Gerard teaches Managerial & Engineering Economics for the program.

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