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Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- 1 The Swedish Vision Zero-An Advanced Safety Culture Phenomenon -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Safety Culture-A Concept to Explore How Road Safety Strategies Are Evolved Over the years -- 1.3 Swedish Road Safety-From Pathological, Reactive to Calculative -- 1.4 Vision Zero-Adopted by the Swedish Parliament 1997-A Proactive Approach to Safety -- 1.5 Vision Zero a Policy Innovation -- 1.6 Definition of the Road Safety Problem-Traditional Versus Vision Zero -- 1.7 Perspective on Responsibility-Traditional Versus Vision Zero -- 1.8 What Should Be Achieved in the Long Run-Traditional Versus Vision Zero -- 1.9 Vision Zero and Implementation -- 1.10 Vision Zero-Road Safety Interventions: A Few Concept Examples -- 1.11 Unprotected Road Users in Urban Areas -- 1.12 Head-On Collisions on Rural Roads -- 1.13 Alcohol-Related Crashes -- 1.14 Speed and Vision Zero -- 1.15 Vision Zero-How to Make Things Happen -- 1.16 New Institutional Conditions -- 1.17 Vision Zero and the Road Safety Trend -- 1.18 Conclusions -- References -- 2 Sustainable Safety: The Dutch Example of a Safe System Approach -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Crashes with Fatalities and Injuries -- 2.3 Road Safety Problems: High Risks and Low-Hanging Fruit -- 2.4 A Safe System Approach -- 2.5 Sustainable Safety in the Netherlands: A Safe System Example -- 2.5.1 Traffic Planning: Functionality of Roads -- 2.5.2 Homogeneity: Dealing with Physical Vulnerability -- 2.5.3 Forgivingness: Physical and Social -- 2.5.4 Predictability -- 2.5.5 State Awareness -- 2.6 Sustainable Safety: Implementation and Effects -- 2.7 Lessons Learned -- References -- 3 Traffic Safety: The Top Ten Issues -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Issue 1: Production -- 3.3 Issue 2: Sequencing -- 3.4 Issue 3: Inequality -- 3.5 Issue 4: Limits to Performance -- 3.6 Issue 5: The Road User.

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.

"As cities become increasingly congested current transport patterns are unsustainable: heavy in energy use, high in economic and environmental cost, and exacerbating inequity between those who can access high speed travel and those who cannot. Good urban planning develops human-scale cities and encourages modes such as bicycles, increased zones exclusive to pedestrians within the cities, and changed fiscal policies to incentivise public over private transport. Equally, it requires good engineering design to manage road use. This book brings together contributions from leading international experts in urban planning, transport and governance who suggest changes to make our cities more sustainable in the face of climate change. All professionals working in transport and engineering and planning students will find an overview of a broad field in this interdisciplinary collection of essays."--Provided by publisher

chapter 1. Understanding the road safety performance of OECD countries / Kavi Bhalia and Dinesh Mohan -- chapter 2. Road traffic injury as a public health problem / Dinesh Mohan -- chapter 3. Public health burden of road traffic injuries / Kavi Bhalia -- chapter 4. Land use-transportation planning, mobility and safety / Geetam Tiwari -- chapter 5. Safety promotion : education and legislation / Dinesh Mohan -- chapter 6. Recording of traffic crashes / Geetam Tiwari -- chapter 7. Traffic conflict techniques : some data to supplement accident analysis / Christer Hyden -- chapter 8. Statistical considerations in road safety research / Shrikant I. Bangdiwala -- chapter 9. Speed and its effects on road traffic crashes / Dinesh Mohan -- chapter 10. Human tolerance to injury : role of biomechanics and ergonomics / Dinesh Mohan -- chapter 11. Safer vehicle design / Sudipto Mukherjee and Anoop Chawla -- chapter 12. Risk evaluation and road safety / Sylvain Lassarre -- chapter 13. Investigating driving failures and their factors by in-depth accident studies / Pierre Van Elslande -- chapter 14. Human body models / Karin Brolin -- chapter 15. Highway safety in India / Geetam Tiwari -- chapter 16. Highway construction zone safety audit / Kumar Neeraj Jha -- chapter 17. Road safety in urban areas / Hermann Knoflacher -- chapter 18. Urban safety and mobility / Geetam Tiwari -- chapter 19. Urban safety and traffic calming / Christer Hyden -- chapter 20. Public transport and safety / Geetam Tiwari and Dinesh Mohan -- chapter 21. Road safety management from the national to the local level / Nicole Muhlrad -- chapter 22. Road safety law and policy / Girish Agrawal -- chapter 23. Pre-hospital care of the injured / Mathew Varghese

At least 5 million people die each year from injuries, and about half the deaths in the 10-24 age group are accountable to them. This is a major health problem for which a number of strategies for prevention and control can be developed.This book presents a series of the plenary and state-of-the-art presentations from the 5th World Conference on Injury Prevention and Control. There is a focus on transportation, workplace, sport and leisure, and domestic sectors, and an exploration of the legal, medical, environmental, safety and governmental issues which play a part in the subject.Practitioner

Quasi-static and dynamic pull tests were conducted to measure the maximum forces that adults can voluntarily exert in holding a 7.9 kg infant dummy (age 6 months) in their laps. The results indicate that the forces that lap and shoulder belted adults can exert in holding an infant dummy in their laps are far less than the inertial force that would be exerted by a 7.9 kg infant decelerated at more than 30 Gs. Thus in a motor vehicle frontal barrier crash at 50 km/hr, an infant even when held tightly by a restrained adult would almost certainly strike the dash or windshield. Similarly in airplanes, in crash or turbulence situations, the lap-held infant is likely to hit nearby hard structures. The results clearly demonstrate that it is not safe for infants to be transported in adults' laps in automobiles or airplanes even in the relatively rare instances when they are held tightly and the adults are restrained.

This article addresses issues of transport systems taking its examples from Delhi and Stockholm. The introduction of the BRT and a congestion tax in these two cities respectively is presented and discussed in terms of modernisation and sustainable transport. This paper explores the perceptions of politicians and examines some transport plans in the search for the opening of a new window of opportunity in matters of urban traffic. The ongoing high proportion of non-motorised modes of transport and use of public transport in Delhi over the past fifty years gives it a greater political opportunity for creating a more inclusive city than Stockholm. In Stockholm, awareness of the influence of emissions on climate change makes the inhabitants more inclined to accept fees for the use of city streets. Sustainable transport and modernisation of transport systems are seen as key activities, but are perceived and operationalised differently in Delhi and Stockholm. Despite all the differences, some similarities in the development of their urban transport projects have been found. This paper inquires into the planning and operationalisation of transport modernisation and the politics of sustainable transport - with a special focus on the process leading up to the final decision.