Table of Contents

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.

About the Author

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.