Transport Planning and Traffic Safety - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1498751458 ISBN 13 : 9781498751452

Editeur : CRC Press, 2016

Synopsis

This is a source book for road safety training courses as well as an introductory textbook for graduate-level courses on road safety. It brings together the international experiences and lessons learned from countries which have been successful in reducing traffic crashes and their applicability in low-income countries. The content is based on lectures delivered during an international course on transportation planning and traffic safety, sponsored annually by the Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Programme (TRIPP) at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Geetam Tiwari is coordinator of the Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Programme (TRIPP) at IIT Delhi and MoUD chair professor for transport planning at the Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Delhi. She earned a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Roorkee, India, Master of Urban Planning and Policy and a Ph.D. in transport planning and policy from the University of Illinois, Chicago. She has been working in the area of traffic and transport planning, focusing on pedestrians, bicycles, and bus systems. She is editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion.Dinesh Mohan is Volvo chair professor emeritus at the Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Programme, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He earned his Ph.D. degree in biomechanics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His research includes vibrations of anisotropic plates; mechanical properties of human aortic tissue; head, chest, and femur injury tolerance; injuries in human free falls; effectiveness of helmets; and the first evaluation of airbags in real-world crashes. He continues to work on epidemiology of road traffic crashes and injuries in rural India, pedestrians, bicycle and motorcycle crash modeling, and health effects of road transport.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CRC Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1498751458
• ISBN 13: 9781498751452
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 386
• Éditeur: Tiwari Geetam, Mohan Dinesh, Agrawal Girish
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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