Overview
- Discusses safety in conjunction with various aspects of mobility and built form
- Covers a wide range of issues of public health- from the biomechanics of head injuries to the lack of active transport
- With contributions from the most authoritative experts in their fields in relation to aspects of transportation and safety
Part of the book series: Springer Transactions in Civil and Environmental Engineering (STICEE)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dinesh Mohan is an Honorary Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi; he has been a Distinguished Professor at the Shiv Nadar University and continues as the Director of the Independent Council for Road Safety International. He serves on the Editorial Boards of two international journals dealing with safety. In the past he has worked at the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, Washington DC (1975-1978) and the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (1971-1975). He has been a consultant on safety related matters to government departments in India, Nepal, Indonesia, Thailand, Bangladesh, Iraq and Libya; he has been a consultant to the automotive industries including TELCO, Ashok Leyland, Volvo Trucks, Eicher Motors Ltd., Escorts Ltd., Maruti Udyog Ltd., SIAM, Bajaj Auto Ltd. and to international organisations like the World Bank and WHO. His research focuses on transportation research (safety and pollution), human tolerance biomechanics, motor‑vehicle safety, road traffic injuries, childhood injuries, effectiveness of automobile safety equipment, evaluation of injuries to cyclists and motorcyclists and motorcycle helmet design. He has been the recipient of many awards including the IRCOBI Bertil Aldman Award, and the Distinguished Alumnus Awards from the University of Delaware (USA) and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay (India).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Transport and Safety
Book Subtitle: Systems, Approaches, and Implementation
Editors: Geetam Tiwari, Dinesh Mohan
Series Title: Springer Transactions in Civil and Environmental Engineering
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-1115-5
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-1114-8Published: 20 May 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-1117-9Published: 21 May 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-1115-5Published: 20 May 2021
Series ISSN: 2363-7633
Series E-ISSN: 2363-7641
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 318
Number of Illustrations: 30 b/w illustrations, 118 illustrations in colour
Topics: Transportation Technology and Traffic Engineering, Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Climate Change Management and Policy, Biomechanics