Traffic Safety, , is a book authored by Leonard Evans, published in 2004 by the Science Serving Society of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

The book uses the methods of science to examine the deaths, injuries, and property damage from traffic crashes. It is more focused on public policy and countermeasures than the author's 1991 book Traffic Safety and the Driver. Results derived from many disciplines, including psychology, sociology, medicine, epidemiology, criminology, biomechanics, economics, physics, and engineering are synthesized into easily understood relationships.

Chapter headings

Traffic Safety is organized as follows:

1. Introduction

2. Data sources

3. Overview of traffic fatalities

4. Vehicle mass and size

5. Environment, roadway, and vehicle

6. Gender, age, and alcohol effects on survival

7. Older drivers

8. Driver performance

9. Driver behavior

10. Alcohol

11. Occupant protection

12. Airbag benefits, airbag costs

13. Measures to improve traffic safety

14. How you can reduce your risk

15. The dramatic failure of US safety policy

16. Conclusions

See also

• Traffic Safety and the Driver, by Leonard Evans

References

Further reading