The Highway Safety Desk Book


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Provides information that can help police leaders be more knowledgeable about the resources available for an effective traffic enforcement program.




The Highway Safety Desk Book


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The Highway Safety Desk Book


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The number of police-reported traffic crashes is estimated at 6.48 million during 1995. This book is intended for police leaders, including commanders, administrators, executives or supervisors, and is a quick and practical compendium of info. to assist them in asserting their leadership in one of policing's most important functions -- police traffic services. It defines acronyms that describe various traffic safety programs, the myriad of Fed. agencies that set standards in this area, new and effective means of stretching limited patrol resources, and much more.







Highway Safety Analytics and Modeling


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Highway Safety Analytics and Modeling comprehensively covers the key elements needed to make effective transportation engineering and policy decisions based on highway safety data analysis in a single. reference. The book includes all aspects of the decision-making process, from collecting and assembling data to developing models and evaluating analysis results. It discusses the challenges of working with crash and naturalistic data, identifies problems and proposes well-researched methods to solve them. Finally, the book examines the nuances associated with safety data analysis and shows how to best use the information to develop countermeasures, policies, and programs to reduce the frequency and severity of traffic crashes. Complements the Highway Safety Manual by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials Provides examples and case studies for most models and methods Includes learning aids such as online data, examples and solutions to problems




Highway Safety Manual


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"The Highway Safety Manual (HSM) is a resource that provides safety knowledge and tools in a useful form to facilitate improved decision making based on safety performance. The focus of the HSM is to provide quantitative information for decision making. The HSM assembles currently available information and methodologies on measuring, estimating and evaluating roadways in terms of crash frequency (number of crashes per year) and crash severity (level of injuries due to crashes). The HSM presents tools and methodologies for consideration of 'safety' across the range of highway activities: planning, programming, project development, construction, operations, and maintenance. The purpose of this is to convey present knowledge regarding highway safety information for use by a broad array of transportation professionals"--p. xxiii, vol. 1.




Traffic Safety


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Traffic Safety applies the methods of science to better understand one of the world's major problems -- harm in road traffic.




Traffic Safety and Human Behavior


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This comprehensive 2nd edition covers the key issues that relate human behavior to traffic safety. In particular it covers the increasing roles that pedestrians and cyclists have in the traffic system; the role of infotainment in driver distraction; and the increasing role of driver assistance systems in changing the driver-vehicle interaction.




Traffic Safety & Crime


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Highway Safety Program Standards


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