R & D Highway & Safety Transportation System Studies
Title | R & D Highway & Safety Transportation System Studies PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Federal Highway Administration |
Publisher | |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 1970 |
Genre | Highway research |
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Transport Planning and Traffic Safety
Title | Transport Planning and Traffic Safety PDF eBook |
Author | Geetam Tiwari |
Publisher | CRC Press |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 2018-09-03 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 1315351277 |
In recognition of the importance of road safety as a major health issue, the World Health Organization has declared 2011-2021 the Decade of Safety Action. Several countries in Europe, North America, and Asia have been successful in reducing fatalities and injuries due to road traffic crashes. However, many low-income countries continue to experience high rates of traffic fatalities and injuries. Transport Planning and Traffic Safety: Making Cities, Roads, and Vehicles Safer offers a source book for road safety training courses as well as an introductory textbook for graduate-level courses on road safety taught in engineering institutes. 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. 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 user in focus. Topics include land use (transportation planning, mobility, and safety), safety education and legislation, accident analysis, road safety research, human tolerance to injury, vehicle design, safety in construction zones, safety in urban areas, traffic calming, public transportation, safety laws and policies, and pre-hospital care of the injured.
R and D (Research and Development)
Title | R and D (Research and Development) PDF eBook |
Author | United States. National Highway Safety Bureau |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1970 |
Genre | |
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Incorporating Safety Into Long-range Transportation Planning
Title | Incorporating Safety Into Long-range Transportation Planning PDF eBook |
Author | Simon Washington |
Publisher | Transportation Research Board |
Pages | 179 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Highway planning |
ISBN | 0309088461 |
"TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 546 examines where and how safety can be effectively addressed and integrated into long-range transportation planning at the state and metropolitan levels. The report includes guidance for practitioners in identifying and evaluating alternative ways to incorporate and integrate safety considerations in long-range statewide and metropolitan transportation planning and decision-making processes"--Publisher's description.
Work in Progress - Highway Safety Research Institute, University of Michigan
Title | Work in Progress - Highway Safety Research Institute, University of Michigan PDF eBook |
Author | University of Michigan. Highway Safety Research Institute |
Publisher | |
Pages | 158 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | Traffic safety |
ISBN |
State Traffic Safety Information
Title | State Traffic Safety Information PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 114 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Traffic accidents |
ISBN |
Achieving Traffic Safety Goals in the United States
Title | Achieving Traffic Safety Goals in the United States PDF eBook |
Author | National Academies (U.S.). Committee for the Study of Traffic Safety Lessons from Benchmark Nations |
Publisher | Transportation Research Board |
Pages | 262 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0309160650 |
The tool kit will vary among jurisdictions depending on basic legal constraints, community attitudes, road system and traffic characteristics, and resources. The Transportation Research Board (TRB) undertook a study to identify the sources of safety improvements in other countries. Researchers do not have a complete understanding of the underlying causes of long-term trends in crashes and fatalities. Differences among countries are in part attributable to factors other than government safety policies. To identify keys to success, the TRB study committee examined specific safety programs for which quantitative evaluations are available and relied on the observations of safety professionals with international experience. The committee's conclusions identify differences between U.S. and international practices that can account for some differences in outcomes. The committee recommendations, which are addressed to elected officials and to government safety administrators, identify actions needed in the United States to emulate the successes that other countries have achieved. The recommendations do not comprehensively address all aspects of traffic safety programs but rather address areas of practice that are highlighted by the international comparisons and for which credible evidence of effectiveness is available."--Pub. desc.