Killed by a Traffic Engineer
Shattering the Delusion that Science Underlies Our Transportation System
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Gesprochen von:
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Stephen R. Thorne
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Wes Marshall
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In the US we are nearing four million road deaths since we began counting them in 1899. The numbers are getting worse, 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.
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.
Killed by a Traffic Engineer shows how traffic engineering "research" is outdated and unexamined (at its best) and often steered by an industry and culture considering only how to get from point A to B the fastest way possible, to the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.
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.
Contains 99% policy and historical references, very US centered, but only 1% engineering,if any.
Should you be a traffic engineer or have any potential influence on urban planning, please do listen/read. The information is there, just stretched on many pages. If you are looking for an engineering insight it is unfortunately not worth the time, instead find recent literature about modern planning of modern European cities.
listen if you are a traffic engineer or an infrastructure planner otherwise skip it.
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