Traffic Safety Leonard Evans 445 pages 2004, Science Serving Society Price: $99.50 SALE! $69.95 Quantity: Questions about shipping?

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. 

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