Traffic Safety: Reality and Future Prospects

Authors

Mohsen Al-Ajmi Eissa

Keywords:

Traffic Safety, Realities and Aspirations, Traffic Regulations, Accidents, Traffic

Synopsis

This book deals with the important topic of traffic safety in relation to traffic and transport; the effectiveness of road systems; preventive plans; and monitoring and violations fines payment programs.

The objectives of the book are summarized as follows:

. Identification on the nature of accidents and its social and economic reflections.

. Review the registered preventive initiatives and ensuring its vital aspects.

. Exploring new ways to develop preventive strategies within the context of the international developments.

. Identification on the mechanisms and organizations for the sake of establishing tangible institutional organization.  

The book provides a deep analytical insight into the traffic actual situation. It stresses keenness on issuing guidelines and initiatives in chronological context. It addresses that preventive project in the field of traffic safety is a kind of communication that underlies the foundations of future programs. Also, it gains benefit from lessons learned from pertinent experiences of the last three or four decades.

The book contains four chapters.

First chapter deals with the research problem, importance, objectives, questions, approach, and concepts.

Second chapter deals with the development of traffic system and its reflections on safety.

Third chapter deals with traffic safety. It reviews the following topics:

. Summary of the international experiments.

. A reading into the European experiments.

. A reading into the Arab experiments.

. The contributions of regional and international organizations.      

Fourth chapter deals with recent trends:

. Institutional organization.

. Traffic strategies.

. Scientific research.

. Traffic communication.

The offers a number of recommendations, the most salient are:

. Institutional organization level.

. Knowledge development level.

. Academic research level.

. Behavior development level.

. Legislation and traffic control level.

. Roads network level.

. Vehicle level.

. Ambulance development level.

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Published

01-January-2009

Details about this monograph

ISBN-13 (15)

978-9960-59-267-1

Date of first publication (11)

2009-01-01

Physical Dimensions

17cm x 24cm x 1.8cm