Book Description "Traffic Safety" applies the methods of science to better understand one of the world’s most pressing public health problems. More than a million people are killed annually in traffic worldwide. This 2004 book is even better than the author’s 1991 classic "Traffic Safety and the Driver". The present book covers many safety policy topics. "Traffic Safety" goes to the heart of the problem, with unconstrained analyses of the inadequacies of government in one of its chief responsibilities – to protect life. A dramatic development since the earlier book is that the United States has fallen far behind other countries in traffic safety. Prior to the mid 1960s, the US had the world’s safest traffic. By 2002 it had dropped from first to sixteenth place in deaths per registered vehicle, and from first to tenth place in deaths for the same distance of travel. Over 200,000 more Americans were killed in traffic than would have died if the US had matched the safety progress in such better performing countries as Britain, Canada, or Australia. This topic is treated in detail, and explanations are offered for the ongoing US failure.
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.. well written and easy to understand. -- insightful and thought provoking. -- Transportation Research Forum, Vol 44, Issue 1, 2005
Drivers will learn tips for being safer - but chapter "The Dramatic Failure of U.S. Safety Policy" is the showstopper. -- Journal of the American Medical Association - JAMA, August 10, 2005
Evans is a brilliant scientist whose work deserves to be read. -- The Lancet, October 16, 2004
It is truly an enjoyable and easy book to read. Evans has included some great stories to illustrate concepts. -- Choice (American Library Association-ALA), February 2005
The encore is even better than the original 1991 classic, "Traffic Safety and the Driver" -- Israel Medical Association Journal, January 2005
highly readable, entertaining, and educational volume on the scientific evidence regarding road safety interventions. -- British Medical Journal, February 12, 2005
Drivers will learn tips for being safer - but chapter "The Dramatic Failure of U.S. Safety Policy" is the showstopper. -- Journal of the American Medical Association - JAMA, August 10, 2005
Evans is a brilliant scientist whose work deserves to be read. -- The Lancet, October 16, 2004
It is truly an enjoyable and easy book to read. Evans has included some great stories to illustrate concepts. -- Choice (American Library Association-ALA), February 2005
The encore is even better than the original 1991 classic, "Traffic Safety and the Driver" -- Israel Medical Association Journal, January 2005
highly readable, entertaining, and educational volume on the scientific evidence regarding road safety interventions. -- British Medical Journal, February 12, 2005
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The author’s 1991 book "Traffic Safety and the Driver" received world-wide acclaim, and has been repeatedly called a ‘classic’. Readers of the August 2004 "Traffic Safety" who were familiar with the earlier book are universally agreeing that "Traffic Safety" is even better.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Leonard Evans has put into straightforward and easily understandable terms the reasons why traffic crashes are the most frequent cause of traumatic death in first world societies. His ways of turning problems inside out and examining real causes while identifying confounders helps turn even the casual reader into something of an expert in traffic safety.
11 of 13 people found the following review helpful
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My field of expertise is driver performance and traffic safety, and as a specialist in this field I can strongly recommend this excellent book. Leonard Evans is widely recognized as the world expert in this area, as far as the basic physics and research data on traffic safety issues are concerned. I bumped into him at the recent 2005 SAE meeting and told him I thought his new book was even better than his first (which was great as it was) -- and he replied "Of course it is better, I have had 10 more years to study the problem." Seriously though, his first chapter is available from hist website http://www.scienceservingsociety.com, and it alone will improve your whole attitude, if you are working in or interested in the area of traffic safety, and whet your appetite for the rest of the book. Note that this book does not have the usual avenues that large book companies have for widespread announcements and distribution, and its important messages should be given widespread attention in my opinion, so I would recommend you order it and let others know about it if you liked it as much as I did.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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This is one truly wonderful book by one of the world's safety pioneers, and one of the most brilliant minds in traffic safety today.
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A good overview on Traffic Safety
This book contains a lot of information. It is written very clear and I can advise it to everyone who is really interested in traffic safety.
Published on December 30, 2009 by D. M. Jansen
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Evans takes on the holy cows and golden calves
This wonderful book--always by my side-- is essential reading for those who want to know what to do about the US's dismal failure to reduce its road death toll in the last decade. Read more
Published on January 18, 2006 by Elihu D Richter MD, MPH
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The Definitive Traffic Safety Reference
Whether you are a traffic safety researcher, professional or advocate, Leonard Evans' new book on the subject is essential reading. Dr. Read more
Published on May 30, 2005 by David B. Brown
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Insightful & Thought Provoking
Similar to the earlier text by the same author, this book is well written and easy to understand. Besides the inclusion of newer research data, this book also has a stronger... Read more
Published on December 27, 2004 by Richard Tay
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A regulatory must-read
On a 10-point scale, I rate the quality and veracity of the data at 9.5 to 10, and the quality of the writing at 9 to 10.
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Published on November 24, 2004 by Daniel Stern
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Fascinating and comprehensive
On September 11th, 2001 about as many people died in the world in traffic as died in the terrorist attacks on America. Read more
Published on September 12, 2004 by A Reader
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Masterly and highly readable
A MASTERLY AND COMPREHENSIVE COVERAGE OF THE FIELD OF TRAFFIC SAFETY BY THE GLOBAL EXPERT. AS EXPECTED FROM THIS AUTHOR, THE LUCID AND WITTY STYLE MAKES READING THIS BOOK A... Read more
Published on August 31, 2004 by C. Gillespie
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Everything you ever wanted to know about traffic safety...
I recommend this book highly. It answers just about every traffic safety question. While written mainly for safety professionals, I found it fascinating, very readable and so... Read more
Published on August 14, 2004 by Stephen M
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- Traffic Safety and the Driver by Leonard Evans on 6 pages
- Occupant Protection (Special Publications) by Society of Automotive Engineers on page 305, and page 306
- Accident Facts by National Safety Council on page 17, and page 34
- Handbook of Transportation Science (International Series in Operations Research & Management Science) by Randolph Hall on page 18, and page 409
- King Lear (The New Folger Library Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare on page 199, and page 340
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- Traffic Safety and the Driver by Leonard Evans on 33 pages
- Traffic and Transport Psychology: Theory and Application by Vaya E. Carbonell on 8 pages
- Human Factors for Highway Engineers by J. a. Santos on 7 pages
- Injury Prevention and Control by Dinesh Mohan on 5 pages
- World Report on Road Traffic Injury Prevention by A. A. Hyder on 5 pages
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