This issue of Current Topics in Transport includes over 80 abstracts of some of the published literature (reports, conference papers, books and journal articles) on some of the many, worldwide measures now in force to protect the safety of road users. These include a wide range of safety engineering measures aimed at speed reduction (eg traffic calming, chevron road markings), the use of the road safety audit in planning for accident prevention, data analysis to identify hazardous locations, collision avoidance technology within and outside the car, and highway design which is focused on speed control. Many articles are concerned with accident prevention for specific groups of road users, including children, cyclists, motorcyclists, pedestrians, novice drivers, drunken drivers, lorry drivers etc. Some articles cover the subject of driver training and the planning, evaluation, and costs of road safety campaigns. The items have been selected from the material added to the Transport Research Laboratory's Library Database between 1994 and 1996. Much of the relevant English language published literature from the UK, USA, Australia and Europe is included; some of the non-UK literature is included courtesy of the OECD International Road Research Documentation (IRRD) database. The previous edition of this title, CT 43, covered abstracts added to the database between 1991 and 1993.
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