Contents
Preface v
1. Road Safety: The International Experience 1
DlNESH MOHAN
2. Road Safety in Low Income Countries: Issues and Concerns Regarding Knowledge
Transfer from High Income Countries 11
DINESH MOHAN AND GEETAM TIWARI
3. Road Traffic Injury as a Public Health Problem 31
DINESH MOHAN
4. Haddon's Matrix and Injury Control 42
LAWRANCE R. BERGER
5. Transportation Planning: Mobility and Safety 46
GEETAM TIWARI
6. Systems Approach to Injury Control 52
GEETAM TIWARI
7. The Accident as a Multifactorial Phenomenon: A Systems Approach to Traffic Safety 60
NlCOLE MUHLRAD AND SYLVA1N LASSARRE
8. Heterogeneous Traffic and Safety 74
GEETAM TIWARI
9. Road User Behaviour and the Road Environment: A Framework for Analysis 90
FARIDA SAAD
10. Considering Traffic Behaviour in a Contested Social Space: Hints of Indigenous
Knowledge Systems on Safety 100
MOHAMED SEEDAT
11. Communication with the Road Users 108
FARIDA SAAD
12. Safety Promotion: Education and Legislation 116
DlNESH MOHAN
13. Types and Sources of Data 122
DINESH MOHAN
14. Recording of Traffic Crashes 128
GEETAM TIWARI
15. Traffic Conflict Techniques: Some Data to Supplement Accident Analysis 139
NlCOLE MUHLRAD
16. Mixed Traffic and Conflict Analysis 155
GEETAM TIWARI, DINESH MOHAN AND JOSEPH FAZIO
17. Some Statistical Models for Road Risk Analysis 167
SYLVAIN LASSARRE
18. Evaluation of Safety Measures 174
SYLVAIN LASSARRE AND NICOLE MUHLRAD
19. The Safety Diagnosis 186
SYLVAIN LASSARRE AND NICOLE MUHLRAD
20. Speed and its Effects on Road Users 199
DINESH MOHAN
21. Reducing Speeds Improves Road Safety: An Undeniable Fact 204
SYLVAIN LASSARRE
22. Human Tolerance to Injury: Role of Biomechanics and Ergonomics 212
DINESH MOHAN
23. Safer Vehicle Design 219
SUDIPTO MUKHERJEE AND ANOOP CHAWLA
24. Design for Safety 224
RAJESH PATEL
25. Road Features and Safety 247
SYLVAIN LASSARRE AND NICOLE MUHLRAD
26. Highway Safety in India 253
GEETAM TIWARI, DINESH MOHAN AND SANDEEP GANDHI
27. Road Safety Audits 264
NICOLE MUHLRAD
28. Road Safety in Urban Areas 276
NICOLE MUHLRAD
29. Urban Safety and Mobility 287
GEETAM TIWARI
30. Urban Safety and Traffic Calming 298
GEETAM TIWARI AND RAJESH PATEL
31. Public Transport and Safety 313
DINESH MOHAN
32. Bicycling and Better Mobility 324
GEETAM TIWARI AND DINESH MOHAN
33. Macro-social Determinants of Safety 329
RAGNAR ANDERSSON
34. Integrated Road Safety Management: Inter-sectoral Policies and Institutional Organisation 332
NICOLE MUHLRAD
35. Road Safety Management: From the National to the Local Level 349
NICOLE MUHLRAD AND ROELOF WITTINK
36. The Role and Structure of Institutions for Promoting Road Safety 361
DINESH MOHAN
37. Pre-Hospital Care 369
MATHEW VAROHESE

Glossary 379
NICOLE MUHLRAD

Systematic Reviews of Road Safety Measures 397
DINESH MOHAN
Abbreviations 413