Traffic Safety (book)

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Traffic Safety, ISBN 0-9754871-0-8, is a book authored by Leonard Evans, published in 2004 by Science Serving Society (Bloomfield Hills, MI)".

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1. Introduction
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

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. (details at http://www.scienceservingsociety.com/traffic-safety.htm ). This book has now largely eclipsed the author's 1991 Traffic Safety and the Driver.

[edit] Traffic Safety and the Driver

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Traffic Safety and the Driver , ISBN 0-442-00163-0, is a book authored by Leonard Evans, published in 1991 by Van Nostrand Reinhold (New York, NY).

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1. Introduction
2. Effects of Sex and Age
3. An Overview of US Traffic Fatalities
4. Engineering, Roadway and Environmental Factors
5. Driver Performance
6. Driver Behavior
7. Alcohol's Role in Traffic Crashes
8. Drunk Driving Countermeasures
9. Effectiveness of Occupant Protection Devices When Used
10. Restraint-Use Laws, Use Rates, and Field Effectiveness
11. User Responses to Changes in Traffic Systems
12. How You Can Reduce Your Risk
13. An Attempt to Estimate the Relative Importance of Factors
14. Traffic Safety in Broader Contexts
15. Conclusions

While the data presented is in some regards dated, the concepts apply now as they did then. This book has been repeatedly referred to as a classic in the fields of traffic safety, vehicle safety, and accident prevention. It has been positively reviewed by most of the world’s most influential technical journals in relevant fields.[1]