Transport Planning and Traffic Safety (eBook, PDF)

Making Cities, Roads, and Vehicles Safer
Redaktion: Tiwari, Geetam; Mohan, Dinesh

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This is a source book for road safety training courses as well as an introductory textbook for graduate-level courses on road safety. It brings together the international experiences and lessons learned from countries which have been successful in reducing traffic crashes and their applicability in low-income countries. The content is based on lectures delivered during an international course on transportation planning and traffic safety, sponsored annually by the Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Programme (TRIPP) at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 386
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498751476
• Artikelnr.: 45434038

Autorenporträt

Geetam Tiwari is coordinator of the Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Programme (TRIPP) at IIT Delhi and MoUD chair professor for transport planning at the Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Delhi. She earned a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Roorkee, India, Master of Urban Planning and Policy and a Ph.D. in transport planning and policy from the University of Illinois, Chicago. She has been working in the area of traffic and transport planning, focusing on pedestrians, bicycles, and bus systems. She is editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion.Dinesh Mohan is Volvo chair professor emeritus at the Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Programme, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He earned his Ph.D. degree in biomechanics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His research includes vibrations of anisotropic plates; mechanical properties of human aortic tissue; head, chest, and femur injury tolerance; injuries in human free falls; effectiveness of helmets; and the first evaluation of airbags in real-world crashes. He continues to work on epidemiology of road traffic crashes and injuries in rural India, pedestrians, bicycle and motorcycle crash modeling, and health effects of road transport.

Inhaltsangabe

Understanding the Road Safety Performance of OECD Countries. Road Traffic
Injury as a Public Health Problem. Public Health Burden of Road Traffic
Injuries. Land Use-Transportation Planning, Mobility, and Safety. Safety
Promotion: Education and Legislation. Recording of Traffic Crashes. Traffic
Conflict Techniques: Some Data to Supplement Accident Analysis. Statistical
Considerations in Road Safety Research. Speed and Its Effects on Road
Traffic Crashes. Human Tolerance to Injury: Role of Biomechanics and
Ergonomics. Safer Vehicle Design. Risk Evaluation and Road Safety.
Investigating Driving Failures and Their Factors by In-Depth Accident
Studies. Human Body Models. Highway Safety in India. Highway Construction
Zone Safety Audit. Road Safety in Urban Areas. Urban Safety and Mobility.
Urban Safety and Traffic Calming. Public Transport and Safety. Road Safety
Management from the National to the Local Level. Road Safety Law and
Policy. Pre-Hospital Care of the Injured.