By Hans von Holst, Åke Nygren, Roland Thord (auth.), Prof. Dr. Hans von Holst, Prof. Dr. Åke Nygren, Dr. Roland Thord (eds.)
Minister Ines Uusmann The Swedish Ministry of shipping and communique The post-industrial society is to a superb quantity characterised through an incredible progress in transportation. the liberty to maneuver is a imperative and basic human worth. Transportation including verbal exchange are crucial prerequi websites for expanding the extent of human interplay and mobility over the years and area, giving us the possi bility to hunt wisdom, event and social con tacts. whilst that mo bility has elevated we have now additionally witnessed an associ ated development in wellbeing and fitness prob lems. The variety of seri ous accidents and fatalities as a result of highway site visitors is un appropriate. nice efforts were made to minimize those figures and a down ward development has been noticeable in so much nations during the last twenty years. nonetheless, there re mains plenty to be performed. VI Minister Ines Uusmann the line shipping infrastructure is the least forgiving human desktop procedure utilized by buyers. In Sweden it kills and motives long term accidents to nearly 5 percentage of the popula tion. In a few nations this determine is over twenty percentage. not like extra modem human-machine platforms the line process depends participants following norms, legislation and principles which are in strength. it really is taken with no consideration that individuals are good, cautious and continually make definitely the right decisions.
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Washington, DC: US Department of Transportation, February, 1996. , Cost of Injury in the United States: A Report to Congress, 1989. Schappert, S M. National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 1992 Summary. Advanced Data from Vital and Health Statistics; #253. Hyattsville, MD. National Center for Health Statistics, 1994. The Zero Vision - A Road Transport System Free from Serious Health Losses Claes Tingval/ Swedish National Road Administration The Road Transport System The road transport system is the least forgiving of all the manmachine systems in daily use in Sweden (with fatalities or longterm injuries sustained by approximately 5% of the population; in some countries, this figure is over 20% of the population).
The only way to keep a situation like this to the left of the violence tolerance curve (see diagram 1) is for the speed of the vehicles to be very low at the moment of impact. A similar collision between vehicles of the same weight, or between vehicles and immovable objects in the road area is, from a health perspective, possible at higher collision speeds. The higher the degree of efficiency in the design of passive protection, and the more successfully external violence is avoided, the higher are the speeds that can be tolerated.
Engineering and technology focus on creating a hazard-free physical environment. This includes both vehicle and roadway design, for example air bags, deformable barriers, or guardrails. Engineering is the only method that can reduce injuries during the crash phase. Traffic Safety as a Health Issue Economic incentives include cost savings realized through participation in prevention activities. Cost-benefit analyses demonstrate the dollar savings compared to the costs incurred for not implementing prevention strategies.