Traffic Safety (book)

Traffic Safety, ISBN 0-9754871-0-8, is a book authored by Leonard Evans, published in 2004 by the Science Serving Society of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

Chapter headings

The book is organized as follows:

  1. Introduction[1]
  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. Conclusions[2]

Traffic Safety uses the methods of science to examine the deaths, injuries, and property damage from traffic crashes. It is more focused on public policy and countermeasures than the author’s 1991 book Traffic Safety and the Driver. Results derived from many disciplines, including psychology, sociology, medicine, epidemiology, criminology, biomechanics, economics, physics, and engineering are synthesized into easily understood relationships.[3]

See also

References

  1. Evans, Leonard (2004). "Chapter 1: Introduction" (PDF). Traffic Safety. Science Serving Society.
  2. Evans, Leonard (2004). "Chapter 16: Vision for a safer tomorrow" (PDF). Traffic Safety. Science Serving Society.
  3. "Book Traffic Safety by Leonard Evans published 2004".

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