Transport Planning & Traffic Safety ─ Making Cities, Roads, & Vehicles Safer

TRIPP (Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Programme) at the India Institute of Technology (Delhi) is an interdisciplinary programme focusing on the reduction of adverse health affects of road transport. TRIPP has been organizing an annual course on Transportation Planning and Traffic Safety since 1991. This book contains the lectures delivered in the course, supplemented by relevant additional content. The goal is for this book to become the source book for the road safety training courses and an introductory book for graduate level courses on road safety taught at the university.

Geetam Tiwari is coordinator of the Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Programme (TRIPP) at IIT Delhi and MoUD chair professor for transport planning at the Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Delhi. She earned a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Roorkee, India, Master of Urban Planning and Policy and a Ph.D. in transport planning and policy from the University of Illinois, Chicago. She has been working in the area of traffic and transport planning, focusing on pedestrians, bicycles, and bus systems. She is editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion.

Dinesh Mohan is Volvo chair professor emeritus at the Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Programme, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He earned his Ph.D. degree in biomechanics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His research includes vibrations of anisotropic plates; mechanical properties of human aortic tissue; head, chest, and femur injury tolerance; injuries in human free falls; effectiveness of helmets; and the first evaluation of airbags in real-world crashes. He continues to work on epidemiology of road traffic crashes and injuries in rural India, pedestrians, bicycle and motorcycle crash modeling, and health effects of road transport.