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Traffic
Safety
Leonard
Evans
445 pages
2004, Science
Serving Society
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Traffic
Safety applies the methods of science to better understand
one of the world’s major problems -- harm in road traffic.
This 2004
book is even better than the author’s 1991 classic Traffic
Safety and the Driver. It goes to the heart of the problem,
with unconstrained analyses and identification of more effective
countermeasures.
Traffic
Safety covers the broad field of traffic safety in its 16
chapters:
1 Introduction
2 Data sources
3 Overview of traffic fatalities
4 Vehicle mass and size
5 Environment, roadway, and vehicle
6 Gender, age, and alcohol effects on survival
7 Older drivers
8 Driver performance
9 Driver behavior
10 Alcohol
11 Occupant protection
12 Airbag benefits, airbag costs
13 Measures to improve traffic safety
14 How you can reduce your risk
15 The dramatic failure of US safety policy
16 Vision for a safer tomorrow
About
the author:
Dr. Leonard Evans, an internationally renowned
expert on traffic safety, is president of Science Serving Society,
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. This is an organization he formed
to continue research and other professional activities after completing
a 33-year research career with General Motors Corporation in June
2000. He has a bachelors degree in physics from the Queen’s
University of Belfast, Northern Ireland, and a doctorate in physics
from Oxford University, England. While most of his more than 150
publications document traffic safety research, he has also covered
such diverse subjects as physics, mathematics, traffic engineering,
transportation energy, human factors, and trauma analysis. His
research has appeared in 41 different technical journals. In 1991
his widely acclaimed influential book Traffic Safety and The
Driver was published. His latest book, Traffic Safety,
was published in August 2004.
His contributions
to traffic safety have received many recognitions, including major
awards from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration,
the International Association for Accident and Traffic Medicine,
the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine, the
Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, and General Motors.
Related books:
Human Factors in Traffic Safety
Medical
and Bioengineering Aspects of Electrical Injuries
Medical-Legal
Aspects of Alcohol
Pedestrian Accident Reconstruction and Litigation
Roadway Safety and Tort Liability
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