Road traffic safety

Author: Pei Yulong
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Publish Date: 2010-12-03
Features: This book is a textbook for undergraduate students of transportation engineering and civil engineering (road engineering direction) in higher education institutions. It incorporates research findings from both domestic and international fields of traffic safety, systematically introduces the fundamental theories and basic methods for reducing or preventing road traffic accidents, and elaborates on the theories and methods of road traffic accident analysis, providing a basis for formulating traffic safety countermeasures. The main contents include: road traffic accident investigation and handling, traffic accident statistical analysis, traffic psychology and traffic safety, vehicle performance, construction, and traffic safety, road conditions and traffic safety, traffic environment and traffic safety, traffic safety evaluation and accident prediction, and traffic safety measures. In addition to serving as a textbook for undergraduate students of transportation engineering and other teaching reference books for other disciplines, this book can also be used as a reference for technical personnel in public security, transportation, urban construction, and other departments. The book systematically introduces the fundamental theories and basic methods for reducing or preventing road traffic accidents and comprehensively elaborates on the theories and methods of road traffic accident analysis.