1st Edition
Global Road Traffic Fatalities and Injuries Data, Trends and Challenges for Making Safer Highways
1. Characteristics of road crash data sources, data quality & reporting problems. 2. Underreporting of Road Traffic Casualties: Global Bounding of Unknowns. 3. Injury severity scales: Universal comparability benefits & drawbacks. 4. Linking & sampling efforts in predicting road traffic crash population. 5. Capturing-recapturing of road traffic death & injury estimation. 6. Common statistical methods for data analysis, population estimate and linking process. 7. Long-term road traffic mortality Atlas: Global, continental & country-by-country level. 8. International traffic injury databases.
Biography
Hashim MN Almadani is a professor at the College of Engineering within the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Bahrain. He holds a PhD from the University of Leeds, UK, and MSc and BSc degrees from KFUPM, Saudi Arabia. He was a faculty member, department chair, and research council member at the University of Bahrain for over 30 years. He has taught at KFUPM and served as a visiting professor at Pisa University, Italy, and Imam Abdulrahman University, Saudi Arabia. He is a recipient of the Bahrain Crown Prince Award, and he founded the Bahrain Center for Transport Studies, which has led to major road safety initiatives. He has published over 60 papers and books on road fatalities, traffic safety, and traffic modelling and serves as a UN-ESCWA traffic safety consultant.
