prashanth.mundkur@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2024 05:49:25 -0400
https://islandpress.org/books/killed-traffic-engineer
Killed by a Traffic Engineer:
Shattering the Delusion that Science Underlies our Transportation System
Wes Marshall
[excerpt from the blurb]
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Engineer* shows how traffic engineering research is outdated and unexamined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.