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Safety in Multi-Modal Transportation Systems as reported in the Winter 2007 TSC Newsletter:

Walking and Biking into the Tsunami: the Need to Balance Sustainability and Traffic Safety TSC Director David Ragland proposes an agenda to "tack to the wall" for making walking and biking safer while promoting non-motorized travel for the health of the planet—and its people.

Safety In Multimodal Transportation Systems: TSC Director David Ragland's Presentation at the 2007 PATH-UTC Conference, "On the Road to Sustainability: From Research to Practice," October, 2007.

TSC Research Seminar as reported in the Winter 2007 TSC Newsletter:

"A tale of Two Cities–and an Island Resort–in Asia: Hazards Grow for Pedestrians and Bicyclists
Three grad students provide insights into traffic safety in China and Thailand at TSC Seminar" Although crash statistics are not very reliable, nearly 100,000 people reportedly died in road traffic accidents in more than 450,000 traffic accidents during 2005 in China, and 26 percent of those deaths involved pedestrians and automobiles.—Presentation by UC Berkeley graduate researchers Brittany Montgomery, Wendy Tao and Allie Thomas.

Summer 2007: TSC Hosts Safety Track at 11th World Conference on Transport Research:

More than three dozen papers were presented. The Traffic Safety Center coordinated the event’s eight sessions devoted to traffic safety, which ranged from discussions of safety laws and enforcement to truck and rail safety, pedestrian safety, and motorcycle safety.

Emergency Medical Services for Traffic Crash Victims in Thailand

With high percentages of vulnerable road users and inadequate pre-hospital care systems, traffic-related injury and death are major public health concerns in Thailand and countries like it. But a new system, begun last fall by the local health department, is slowly taking hold. Through interviews with doctors, nurses and officials from the health, fire, and police departments, including the Chief of EMS planning for Thailand, Brown found what he termed a "good blueprint" for pre-hospital care in Chiang Mai.

"Pre-hospital Care of Road Traffic Injuries in Chiang Mai, Thailand." Brown, TR. Geyer, JA. Taghavy, A. Mitchell, BP. Ragland, DR. (November 15, 2004). U.C. Berkeley Traffic Safety Center. Paper UCB-TSC-RR-2004-18.

"World Health Day 2004: a reference guide and analysis." TSC staff white paper. 2004.

"Getting from the Crash in Time: Developing countries start to look at improvements in ambulance services as a way to cut traffic-related injuries and deaths," describes Ted Brown's research in Emergency Medical Services for Crash Victims in Thailand. TSC Online Newsletter, Fall 2003.

"Prehospital Care of Road Traffic Injuries in Chiang Mai, Thailand" (September 1, 2003). Ted Brown. U.C. Berkeley Traffic Safety Center. Paper UCB-TSC-MT-2003-13. Appendix.

"Traffic Safety in India:" interview with Dinesh Mohan, Coordinator of the Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Programme at the Institute of Technology in New Delhi, India, interview as part of TSC Expert Series. 2001.

Presentations:

Brown TR, Geyer JA, Taghavy A, Mitchell BP, and Ragland DR. “Prehospital Care of Road Traffic Injuries in Chiang Mai, Thailand” Transportation Board Annual Meeting, Washington D.C. January 10, 2005.