Dominique Lord is a Professor in the Zachry Department of Civil Engineering at Texas A&M University, USA. He has published more than 110 papers published in peer-reviewed journals and presented more than 100 papers at international conferences. He is also the recipient of numerous and prestigious awards. Simon Washington is currently Head of School and Professor, School of Civil Engineering at the University of Queensland, Australia. He is Associate Editor or Editorial Advisory Board Member on six leading international transport journals and has co-authored more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and a second edition of a textbook which has been adopted in over 20 countries.

Civil engineers, transportation researchers, and political scientists review what is currently known about global road safety in both academic and practical realms. They cover challenges and solutions in driver behavior, transport networks, and vulnerable road users; methods for understanding and predicting safety performance; and methods for evaluating safety impacts of countermeasures. Among their topics are driver education and licensing, rural and urban intersections, real-time traffic safety and operation, time-series regression models for analyzing transport safety data, and meta-analytic methods.

• Introduction; Simon Washington and Dominique Lord Driver Behaviour: Challenges and Solutions 1. Driver Education and Licensing Programs; Lyndel Bates, Ashleigh Filtness and Barry Watson  2. Aggressive driving and speeding, Kara Kockelman and Jianming Ma 3. Distracted Driving and Inattention; Mitchell Cunningham and Michael Regan Transport Network: Challenges and Solutions  4. Urban and Suburban Arterials; Tom Brijs and Ali Pirdavani 5. Controlled Access Facilities (freeways); Francesca La Torre 6. Rural and Urban Intersections; Richard Tay 7. Roundabouts; Alfonso Montella 8. Real time traffic safety and operations; Mohamed Abdel-Aty, Qi Shi, Anurag Pande and Rongjie Yu Vulnerable Road Users: Challenges and Solutions 9. Providing for Pedestrians; Per Gårder 10. Providing for Bicyclists; Narelle Haworth and Jacqueline Fuller Methods for Understanding and Predicting Safety Performance 11. Cross-Sectional Modelling; Fred Mannering 12. Time-Series Modelling; Mohammed Quddus 13. Safety Prediction with Datasets Characterized with Excess Zero Responses and Long Tails; Dominique Lord and Srinivas Geedipally 14. Crash Severity Methods; John Ivan and Karthik C. Konduri 15. Detecting high risk accident locations; Simon Washington, Amir Pooyan Afghari, and MD Mazharul Haque 16. Surrogate Measures of Safety; Andrew Tarko Methods for Evaluating Safety Impacts of Countermeasures  17. Before-after Evaluations; Bhagwant Persaud 18. Meta Analytic Methods; Rune Elvik Summary and ConclusionsConclusions and Future Directions; Simon Washington and Dominique Lord