Citation

IATSS 525 Project Team. IATSS Res. 1983; 7(1): 15-23.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1983, International Association of Traffic and Safety Sciences, Publisher Elsevier Publishing)

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Abstract

This project is a study to define and identify the safety in automotive traffic where the man and the machine coexist and may sometimes even conflict. The image of safety has changed with the development and transformation of transportation modes. Since transportation is related to all other activities of our lives, safety is not an entity in itself but must be viewed in a total societal framework. The purpose of this research is to obtain a comprehensive and systematic understanding of the relationship between living environment and safety generated by the emergence of an automobile-reliant society. Results are discussed from the perspectives of young and old automobile drivers, motorcyclists, bicycle riders, and pedestrians.