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Transport and Safety

Systems, Approaches, and Implementation

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Editors:
  1. Geetam Tiwari

    1. Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India

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  2. Dinesh Mohan

    1. Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India

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  • Discusses safety in conjunction with various aspects of mobility and built form
  • Covers a wide range of issues of public health- from the biomechanics of head injuries to the lack of active transport
  • With contributions from the most authoritative experts in their fields in relation to aspects of transportation and safety

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. The Swedish Vision Zero—An Advanced Safety Culture Phenomenon

    • Matts-Åke Belin
    Pages 1-28

  3. Sustainable Safety: The Dutch Example of a Safe System Approach

    • Fred Wegman
    Pages 29-51

  4. Traffic Safety: The Top Ten Issues

    • Tony Bliss
    Pages 53-66

  5. Legislation, Enforcement and Education for Traffic Safety: A Brief Review of the Current State of Knowledge

    • Rune Elvik
    Pages 67-83

  6. What and How of Effective Police Enforcement

    • Dinesh Mohan, Rahul Goel
    Pages 85-103

  7. Principles for Development of Safer Rural Highway Systems for Conditions Prevailing in Low and Middle-Income Countries

    • Geetam Tiwari
    Pages 105-127

  8. Traffic Calming: The Way Ahead in Mixed Traffic

    • Christer Hydén
    Pages 129-146

  9. State of the Art of Roundabout Performance for Promoting of Urban Safety

    • Werner Brilon
    Pages 147-164

  10. Pedestrian Safety Versus Traffic Flow: Finding the Balance

    • Robert B. Noland
    Pages 165-187

  11. Current Vehicle Safety Technologies and Future Directions

    • Murray Mackay
    Pages 189-203

  12. Possible Futures of Vehicle Safety

    • Yves Page
    Pages 205-221

  13. Head Trauma Biomechanics

    • Remy Willinger, Caroline Deck, Nicolas Bourdet
    Pages 223-238

  14. Urban Transport Planning in the Age of Global Warming

    • Hermann Knoflacher
    Pages 239-282

  15. The Energy Glut: Transport and the Politics of Fatness and Thinness

    • Ian Roberts
    Pages 283-301

  16. ‘How Can Transport Contribute to Other Urban Agendas?’

    • David Satterthwaite
    Pages 303-318
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About this book

This volume addresses a variety of issues on traffic safety policy, ranging from issues of climate change, urban equity, and transport safety, in a broad global and societal context, while retaining situation-specific details. Written by international experts on issues of transportation and traffic safety, it will be of special interest to advanced researchers in the engineering and planning disciplines working on these issues as well as policy makers concerned with setting up institutions and legislations for traffic safety.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India

    Geetam Tiwari

  • Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India

    Dinesh Mohan

About the editors

Geetam Tiwari is the MoUD Chair Professor for Transport Planning at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and was a Adlerbretska Guest Professor for sustainable urban transport at the Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden  from 2007-2010. She obtained her B.Arch.  from the University of Roorkee and  Master of Urban Planning and Policy, and Ph.D. in Transport Planning and Policy, from the University of Illinois, Chicago. She has extensive research experience in dealing with transportation issues of special relevance to low income countries. These include development of bus systems and road designs that would make transportation efficient and safer. She has been working in the area of traffic and transport planning focusing on pedestrians, bicycles and public transport. She has published over 70 research papers on transportation planning and safety in national and international journals and peer reviewed seminar proceedings. She edited four books ontransportation planning and road safety. She has received the International Velocity Falco Lecture Prize, Barcelona, Spain; the Stockholm Partnerships Award for local impact, innovative thinking and a potential for replication or transferability: a Centre for excellence grant from the Volvo Research and Educational Foundations (VREF); the IRTE & Prince Michaels Award for promoting road safety research and the LMA (Lucknow Management Association) Award for Woman Achiever, 2010. She is an Advisor to the Urban Age series of conferences coordinated by the London School of Economics since 2005.


Dinesh Mohan is an Honorary Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi; he has been a Distinguished Professor at the Shiv Nadar University and continues as the Director of the Independent Council for Road Safety International. He serves on the Editorial Boards of two international journals dealing with safety. In the past he has worked at the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, Washington DC (1975-1978) and the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (1971-1975). He has been a consultant on safety related matters to government departments in India, Nepal, Indonesia, Thailand, Bangladesh, Iraq and Libya; he has been a consultant  to the automotive industries including TELCO, Ashok Leyland, Volvo Trucks, Eicher Motors Ltd., Escorts Ltd., Maruti Udyog Ltd., SIAM, Bajaj Auto Ltd.  and to international organisations like the World Bank and WHO. His research focuses on transportation research (safety and pollution), human tolerance biomechanics, motor‑vehicle safety, road traffic injuries, childhood injuries, effectiveness of automobile safety equipment, evaluation of injuries to cyclists and motorcyclists and motorcycle helmet design. He has been the recipient of many awards including the IRCOBI Bertil Aldman Award, and the Distinguished Alumnus Awards from the University of Delaware (USA) and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay (India).


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