Safe and Sustainable Mobility by Design: Safe Cities, Vehicles, Institutions, and Human Rights

This book is a Festschrift for Professor Dinesh Mohan. The book presents select proceedings of   the Dinesh Mohan Memorial Symposium organised by the Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Centre, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, in September, 2022. The over-arching theme of “the right to safety by design” of the

vulnerable in today’s urban society is the core concern of this book; sustainable transportation, built-form, and clean air are the main concerns that are intrinsically related to this central theme. The promotion of active transport has multiple health issues like cleaner air; integrated infrastructure in urban areas with an emphasis on bicycling and walking in conjunction with public transport; traffic calming; and equity in the community design with an increase in actual and perceived safety and an improvement in the environment. 

The book highlights the need of policy makers to address the complexities involved in ensuring safe, sustainable urban mobility for all. It provides guidance to researchers to explore the structural and systemic causes of problems in urban mobility and address them through engineering and design. This book provides a reference text for researchers in the area of urban transport, road safety, sustainable urbanisation, transport and health, public   transport, environment, and pollution.

 

Geetam Tiwari, Ph.D., is a professor emeritus, at the Transportation

Research and Injury Prevention Centre at the Indian Institute of Technology,

Delhi. She completed her Master of Urban Planning and Policy and her doctorate

in Transport Planning from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has

received the degree of Doctor of Technology Honoris Causa from the Chalmers

University of Technology, Sweden, in 2012. Her research focus includes traffic

and transport planning and traffic safety focusing on pedestrians, bicycles,

bus systems, and highway safety. She is an editor-in-chief of the International

Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion since 2009. She is the chairperson of the

BIS, SSD01(Bureau of Indian Standards, Service Sector Division) committee since

2020.

Mathew Varghese, MBBS, MS , is an orthopaedic surgeon at the St. Stephen’s Hospital, Delhi, since

1990. He served as the director of St Stephen’s Hospital from 1999–2006. He has

been the executive committee member and governing council member, Christian Medical

College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India. He holds the position of Honorary

Director for Cure Club Foot International India Trust (CIIT), an organisation

preventing disability from clubfoot, one of the commonest orthopaedic birth

defects. He is scientific advisor to a Niti Aayog project on emergency care: “A

Country Level Assessment of Current Status of Emergency and Injury Care at

Secondary and Tertiary Level Centres in India” since May 2019. He was awarded the “Vishishta Chkitsa

Ratan Award” by the Delhi Medical Association, 2018; Distinguished Teacher

Award by the Association of National Board of Examination Institutions August

2019; the Guildal Memorial Lecture by the Danish Orthopaedic Society in October

2019.

Kavi Bhalla, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences of

the Biological Sciences Division at the University of Chicago and affiliated

faculty at the Harris School of Public Policy.  His research aims to

develop transport systems that are safe, sustainable, and equitable, with a

central focus on road safetyin low- and middle-income countries. His recent

work has focused on the development of analytical tools for improving estimates

of the incidence of injuries in information-poor settings using the available

data sources and the evaluation of road safety interventions. He co-led the

Injury Expert Group of the 2010 Global Burden of Disease Project.  He is

formally trained as a mechanical engineer and his Ph.D. (Cornell, 2001) thesis

research focused on the mechanics of material failure, which he later applied

to the study of injury biomechanics and vehicle crashworthiness.