THE WAY FORWARDTRNSPRT PLG & RD SAFETY

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The Way Forward presents for the first time, a comprehensive text which documents the scientific evidence on various aspects of road safety. This book moves well beyond the mere compilation of data and analyses. It examines road safety from such diverse points of view as biomechanics ergonomics, transportation, road planning, epidemiology, medicine, vehicle design and the social sciences. The book will prove useful in training courses in road safety by city, traffic and transport planning, public health professionals, and graduate-level students in departments and centres for transportation research and planning in universities across the world.

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Geetam Tiwari - Associate professor in the Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Programme (TRIPP) and the Department of Civil Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi since 1990. Dinesh Mohan - Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi since 1979. He is also the Coordinator of Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Programme (TRIPP) and Head of the WHO collaborating Centre on Research and Training in Safety Technology. Nicole Muhlrad. - A senior researcher at the Institute National de Researche Sur Les Transports et Leur Securite (NRETS), Paris. Table of Contents Road Safety: The International Experience • Road Safety in Low Income Countries: Issues and Concerns Regarding Knowledge Transfer from High Income Countries • Road Traffic Injury as a Public Health Problem • Haddon’s Matrix and Injury Control • Transportation Planning: Mobility and Safety • Systems Approach to Injury Control • The Accident as a Multifactorial Phenomenon: A Systems Approach to Traffic Safety • Heterogeneous Traffic and Safety • Road User Behaviour and the Road Environment: A Framework for Analysis • Considering Traffic Behaviour in a Contested Social Space: Hints of Indigenous Knowledge Systems on Safety • Communication with the Road Users • Safety Promotion: Education and Legislation • Types and Sources of Data • Recording of Traffic Crashes • Traffic Conflict Techniques: Some Data to Supplement Accident Analysis • Mixed Traffic and Conflict Analysis • Some Statistical Models for Road Risk Analysis • Evaluation of Safety Measures • The Safety Diagnosis • Speed and its Effects on Road Users • Reducing Speeds Improves Road Safety: An Undeniable Fact • Human Tolerance to Injury: Role of Biomechanics and Ergonomics • Safer Vehicle Design • Design for Safety • Road Features and Safety • Highway Safety in India • Road Safety Audits • Road Safety in Urban Areas • Urban Safety and Mobility • Urban Safety and Traffic Calming • Public Transport and Safety • Bicycling and Better Mobility • Macro-social Determinants of Safety • Integrated Road Safety Management: Inter-sectoral Policies and Institutional Organisation • Road Safety Management: From the National to the Local Level • The Role and Structure of Institutions for Promoting Road Safety • Pre-Hospital Care • Glossary • Systematic Reviews of Road Safety Measures • Abbreviations