Transport planning & traffic safety making cities, roads, & vehicles safer

The book is interdisciplinary and aimed at professionals-traffic and road engineers, vehicle designers, law enforcers, and transport planners. The authors examine trends in performance of OECD countries and highlight the public health and systems approach of traffic safety with the vulnerable road u...

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Main Authors: Tiwari, Geetam (Author), Mohan, Dinesh (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boca Raton, FL CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group 2016
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index 
505 0 |a Chapter 1. Understanding the road safety performance of OECD countries / Kavi Bhalia and Dinesh Mohan -- chapter 2. Road traffic injury as a public health problem / Dinesh Mohan -- chapter 3. Public health burden of road traffic injuries / Kavi Bhalia -- chapter 4. Land use-transportation planning, mobility and safety / Geetam Tiwari -- chapter 5. Safety promotion : education and legislation / Dinesh Mohan -- chapter 6. Recording of traffic crashes / Geetam Tiwari -- chapter 7. Traffic conflict techniques : some data to supplement accident analysis / Christer Hyden -- chapter 8. Statistical considerations in road safety research / Shrikant I. Bangdiwala -- chapter 9. Speed and its effects on road traffic crashes / Dinesh Mohan -- chapter 10. Human tolerance to injury : role of biomechanics and ergonomics / Dinesh Mohan -- chapter 11. Safer vehicle design / Sudipto Mukherjee and Anoop Chawla -- chapter 12. Risk evaluation and road safety / Sylvain Lassarre -- chapter 13. Investigating driving failures and their factors by in-depth accident studies / Pierre Van Elslande -- chapter 14. Human body models / Karin Brolin -- chapter 15. Highway safety in India / Geetam Tiwari -- chapter 16. Highway construction zone safety audit / Kumar Neeraj Jha -- chapter 17. Road safety in urban areas / Hermann Knoflacher -- chapter 18. Urban safety and mobility / Geetam Tiwari -- chapter 19. Urban safety and traffic calming / Christer Hyden -- chapter 20. Public transport and safety / Geetam Tiwari and Dinesh Mohan -- chapter 21. Road safety management from the national to the local level / Nicole Muhlrad -- chapter 22. Road safety law and policy / Girish Agrawal -- chapter 23. Pre-hospital care of the injured / Mathew Varghese 
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