Road Safety in Kenya

ISBN-13: 9783639254136 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 360 str.

Meleckidzedeck Khayesi (Independent Researcher)

Opis

Road safety is a major development, public health and transportation problem in many countries. Road traffic injuries take a way the human and financial resources that countries need for development. This book, based on a Ph.D degree thesis by the author, provides a comprehensive analysis of road safety policy in Kenya. The book focuses on three key issues: spatio-temporal patterns of road traffic injuries, selected underlying socio-economic dynamics and effectiveness of intervention measures.

O autorze

Meleckidzedeck Khayesi is a Human Geographer, with a Ph.D degree in Transport Geography. He was a lecturer in the Department of Geography at Kenyatta University, Kenya. He is currently working on road safety policy at the World Health Organisation, Geneva, Switzerland