Traffic Safety

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.

About the Author Dr. Leonard Evans is arguably the worlds most recognized, respected, and prolific traffic safety researcher. In addition to receiving most of the world's traffic safety honors and awards, he has been elected a fellow of the Society of Automotive Engineers, a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine, a fellow of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He has been president of the International Traffic Medicine Association and president of the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine, the only person to hold both these offices.

Dr. Evans is president of Science Serving Society, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a one-man organization he formed in 2000 to continue research and related professional activities after completing a 33-year research career with General Motors. His doctorate is in physics from Oxford University, England.

His 1991 book "Traffic Safety and The Driver" has been repeatedly called a classic. His August 2004 book "Traffic Safety" has been repeatedly described as even better!