Traffic Safety (book)

Traffic Safety, , is a book authored by Leonard Evans, published in 2004 by the Science Serving Society of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

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.

Chapter headings

Traffic Safety is organized as follows:

Introduction

Data sources

Overview of traffic fatalities

Vehicle mass and size

Environment, roadway, and vehicle

Gender, age, and alcohol effects on survival

Older drivers

Driver performance

Driver behavior

Alcohol

Occupant protection

Airbag benefits, airbag costs

Measures to improve traffic safety

How you can reduce your risk

The dramatic failure of US safety policy

Conclusions

See also

Traffic Safety and the Driver

References

Further reading

Automotive safety

Handbooks and manuals

2004 non-fiction books