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Transport and Safety: Systems, Approaches, and Implementation de Geetam Tiwari

Transport and Safety: Systems, Approaches, and Implementation: Springer Transactions in Civil and Environmental Engineering

Editat de Geetam Tiwari, Dinesh Mohan
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 mai 2022
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789811611179
ISBN-10: 9811611173
Ilustrații: XIV, 318 p. 148 illus., 118 illus. in color.
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2021
Editura: Springer Nature Singapore
Colecția Springer
Seria Springer Transactions in Civil and Environmental Engineering

Locul publicării:Singapore, Singapore

Cuprins

The Swedish Vision Zero - An Advanced Safety Culture Phenomenon.- Sustainable Safety : The Dutch Example of a Safe System Approach.- Traffic Safety: The Top 10 Issues.- Legislation, Enforcement and Education for Traffic Safety, A Brief Review of the Current State of Knowledge.- What and How of Effective Police Enforcement.- Principles for Development of Safer Rural Highway Systems for Conditions Prevailing in Low and Middle-Income Countries.- Traffic Calming: The Way Ahead in Mixed Traffic.- State-of-the-Art of Roundabout Performance for Promoting of Urban Safety.- Pedestrian Safety Versus Traffic Flow: Finding the Balance.- Current Vehicle Safety Technologies and Future Directions.

Notă biografică

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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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.

Caracteristici

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