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Road transport is on a constant course to maintain and improve safety. Approaches to Road Safety: Evolution, Challenges, and Emerging Technologies makes the case for the adoption of safe systems in road transport industries through the embracing of technology, system attributes and values and operational challenges.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Contents1. Introduction
2. Sixty years of safety realism
3. The safety generation
4. The evolution of mobility in the new century
5. The emerging safety paradigm of connected vehicles and infrastructure
6. The leap towards automated vehicles
7. Evolution of road safety - from countermeasures to deep solutions
Index
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Dr. Peter Sweatman is Enterprise Professor in the School of Engineering at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He has over 50 years' experience in transportation research and innovation, and the application of R&D. That experience encompasses vehicles, drivers, and infrastructure and impinges on technology, policy, and strategic planning. Peter is also the former director of the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) (2004 - 2015), and the founder and former director of Mcity (2013 - 2016). In Australia, Dr. Sweatman founded Roaduser Systems Pty Ltd, a successful freight vehicle technology business implementing research for the benefit of both the private and public sectors, including resource production, manufacturing industry, road freight transport, vehicle manufacture, highway infrastructure and maintenance and road transport policy development.
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Road transport is on a constant course to maintain and improve safety. Approaches to Road Safety: Evolution, Challenges, and Emerging Technologies makes the case for the adoption of safe systems in road transport industries through the embracing of technology, system attributes and values and operational challenges.
