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Book Killed by a Traffic Engineer

Download or read book Killed by a Traffic Engineer written by Wes Marshall and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the US we are nearing four million road deaths since we began counting them in 1899. The numbers are getting worse in recent years, yet we continue to accept these deaths as part of doing business. There has been no examination of why we engineer roads that are literally killing us. Fixing the carnage on our roadways requires a change in mindset and a dramatic transformation of transportation. This goes for traffic engineers in particular because they are still the ones in charge of our streets. In Killed by a Traffic Engineer, civil engineering professor Wes Marshall shines a spotlight on how little science there is behind the way that our streets are engineered, which leaves safety as an afterthought. While traffic engineers are not trying to cause deliberate harm to anyone, he explains, they are guilty of creating a transportation system whose designs remain largely based on plausible, but unproven, conjecture. Thoroughly researched and compellingly written, Killed by a Traffic Engineer shows how traffic engineering “research” is outdated and unexamined (at its best) and often steered by an industry and culture considering only how to get from point A to B the fastest way possible, to the detriment of safety, quality of life, equality, and planetary health. Marshall examines our need for speed and how traffic engineers disconnected it from safety, the focus on capacity and how it influences design, blaming human error, relying on faulty data, how liability drives reporting, measuring road safety outcomes, and the education (and reeducation) of traffic engineers. Killed by a Traffic Engineer is ultimately hopeful about what is possible once we shift our thinking and demand streets engineered for the safety of people, both outside and inside of cars. It will make you look at your city and streets—and traffic engineers— in a new light and inspire you to take action.

Book Catalog of Copyright Entries  Third Series

Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1978 with total page 1682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hidden Factors in Technological Change

Download or read book Hidden Factors in Technological Change written by Edward Semper and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hidden Factors in Technological Change examines the educational implications of living in an advanced technological society and suggests ways in which teaching programs and learning situations in schools might be appropriately reoriented. Trends in technological innovation and design are discussed, along with their likely social, aesthetic, environmental, economic, moral, and political consequences. This book is comprised of 20 chapters and begins with an assessment of the wider implications of technological innovation from a variety of different viewpoints, with emphasis on television. More specifically, the social, economic, aesthetic, scientific, moral, and political implications of technology are considered. The next section focuses on various aspects of living with technology, including the use of resources, the quality of life in cities, and transport and communication. The consequences of technology for education, especially the school curriculum, are also discussed. Other chapters explore ways in which schools might begin to develop in their pupils critical, informed, and constructive attitudes to the many opportunities and problems associated with technological change, and thereby help to make technology more accountable to society and more responsive to the wishes of ordinary people. This monograph will be of interest to educators and school administrators, education officials, and science and technology policymakers.

Book Bibliography

    Book Details:
  • Author : National Research Council (U.S.). Highway Research Board
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1947
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 60 pages

Download or read book Bibliography written by National Research Council (U.S.). Highway Research Board and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Traffic Quarterly

Download or read book Traffic Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Land Use and the Environment

Download or read book Land Use and the Environment written by United States. Environmental Protection Agency and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Shared Walls

    Book Details:
  • Author : Diana E. James
  • Publisher : McFarland
  • Release : 2015-02-12
  • ISBN : 1476603588
  • Pages : 215 pages

Download or read book Shared Walls written by Diana E. James and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1900 edition of Polk's Seattle City Directory listed four apartment buildings. By 1939, that number had grown to almost 1,400. This study explores the circumstances that prompted the explosive growth of this previously unknown form of housing in Seattle and takes an in-depth look at a large number of different apartment buildings, from the small and simple to the large and grand. Illustrated with numerous contemporary and vintage photographs and sketches, this volume preserves an intimate record of these under-studied and under-appreciated buildings and will inspire an appreciation for their history and architectural variety, and for their preservation as an integral part of Seattle's urban landscape.

Book Driver and Traffic Safety Education

Download or read book Driver and Traffic Safety Education written by James E. Aaron and published by New York : Macmillan. This book was released on 1966 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of Title entries of Books and Other Articles Entered in the Office of the Librarian of Congress  at Washington  Under the Copyright Law     Wherein the Copyright Has Been Completed by the Deposit of Two Copies in the Office

Download or read book Catalogue of Title entries of Books and Other Articles Entered in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington Under the Copyright Law Wherein the Copyright Has Been Completed by the Deposit of Two Copies in the Office written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Public Affairs Information Service Bulletin

Download or read book Public Affairs Information Service Bulletin written by Public Affairs Information Service and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 1352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Current Serial Holdings List of the University of Illinois Library at Urbana Champaign

Download or read book Current Serial Holdings List of the University of Illinois Library at Urbana Champaign written by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Library and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The National Union Catalog  Pre 1956 Imprints

Download or read book The National Union Catalog Pre 1956 Imprints written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Directory of Publishing Opportunities in Journals and Periodicals

Download or read book Directory of Publishing Opportunities in Journals and Periodicals written by and published by Marquis Who's Who. This book was released on 1979 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Directory of publishing opportunities in periodicals - includes all types of journals in 73 specific fields of interest.

Book Ulrich s Periodicals Directory

Download or read book Ulrich s Periodicals Directory written by and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Balanced Transportation Planning for Suburban and Academic Communities

Download or read book Balanced Transportation Planning for Suburban and Academic Communities written by Stanford Workshops on Political and Social Issues and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: