TRL701
| TRL701 | |
|---|---|
| Transportation Safety and Injury prevention | |
| Credits | 4 |
| Structure | 3-0-2 |
| Pre-requisites | |
| Overlaps | |
TRL701 : Transportation Safety and Injury prevention
[edit]The course will provide the students with basics of transport and traffic safety as a public health issue; systems understanding of road transport; traffic crash and travel data sources, methods for modelling travel behaviour choices and the four step transport model; specific safety requirements for pedestrians, bicyclists, motorised two wheelers, public transport users and car users; planning and design requirements or safe highways and rural roads; methods of costing road traffic crashes, Review of Mechanics, Newton's laws, Inertia, stress-strain, energy, impact; Mathematical modelling in biomechanics and injury prevention, Lumped mass, multi body, FE and integrated computational models(3);Tissue and Human body Biomechanics, Mechanisms of injury, injury indices; Crashworthiness standards-crash tests and crash simulations, Use of Human Body Surrogates and Models for Testing / analysis, Vehicle structures for crash energy management; Vehicle occupant/restraint system analysis ; Pedestrian crashes and safety; Helmet Design.