The Center for the Study & 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.

CSIR is working with the CCS Regulatory Project to develop policy recommendations to address risks associated with this emerging technology to address global climate change. Elizabeth Wilson and David Gerard co-edited a volume examining the technical, social, and regulatory aspects of CCS.

Britney McCoy presented work on petroleum refinery "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 program in Engineering & Technology Innovation Management. Gerard teaches the core course in Managerial & Engineering Economics for ETIM.

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