Traffic Safety

Traffic Safety applies the methods of science to better understand one of the worlds major problems -- harm in road traffic. It goes to the heart of the problem, with unconstrained analyses and identification of more effective countermeasures.

Chapters include:

• 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
• Vision for a safer tomorrow