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 the Science Serving Society of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.{{Cite journal |last=Robertson |first=L. S. |date=February 2006 |title=Robertson's reply to Evans' assertions |journal=Injury Prevention |volume=12 |issue=1 |pages=63.1–63 |doi=10.1136/ip.2005.000206 |issn=1353-8047|pmc=2563504 }}{{Cite journal |last=Evans |first=Leonard |date=February 2004 |title=Evans Responds |journal=American Journal of Public Health |volume=94 |issue=2 |pages=171–172 |doi=10.2105/AJPH.94.2.171}}{{Cite journal |date=September 2004 |title=Highway Hubris |journal=Wilson Quarterly |volume=28 |issue=4 |pages=12}}{{Cite journal |last=Eisenberg |first=Daniel |date=2005-08-10 |title=Traffic Safety |journal=Journal of the American Medical Association |volume=294 |issue=6 |pages=746–747|doi=10.1001/jama.294.6.746 }}

The book 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.{{cite web | url = http://www.scienceservingsociety.com/traffic-safety.htm | title = Book Traffic Safety by Leonard Evans published 2004 }}

Chapter headings

Traffic Safety is organized as follows:

  1. Introduction{{cite web | url = http://scienceservingsociety.com/ts/text/ch01.pdf | title = Chapter 1: Introduction | work = Traffic Safety | first = Leonard | last = Evans | year = 2004 | publisher = Science Serving Society }}
  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{{ cite web | url = http://scienceservingsociety.com/ts/text/ch16.pdf | title = Chapter 16: Vision for a safer tomorrow | work = Traffic Safety | first = Leonard | last = Evans | year = 2004 | publisher = Science Serving Society }}

See also

References

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Further reading

  • {{cite book

|title=Traffic Safety and the Driver

|last=Evans

|first=Leonard

|year=1991

|location=New York

|publisher=Van Nostrand Reinhold

|isbn=0-442-00163-0

}}

  • {{cite book

|title=Traffic Safety

|last=Evans

|first=Leonard

|year=2004

|location=Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

|publisher=Science Serving Society

|isbn=0-9754871-0-8

}}

Category:Automotive safety

Category:Handbooks and manuals

Category:2004 non-fiction books

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