Introduction
The Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Programme(TRIPP) at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, the French National Institute for Transport and Safety Research (INRETS) France, and the International Research Council on the Biomechanics of Impacts (IRCOBI) are organizing a seven day International Course on Transportation Planning and Safety.  The course will be held in New Delhi, India, from 09-15 December 2004, and TRIPP will be the host institution.

Course Objectives
This seven day Course will bring together professionals working in the area of transportation planning and safety promotion  to acquaint them with the state-of-the-art information in the field. The Course is especially designed for an interdisciplinary audience of law enforcers, police officers, traffic and road engineers, behavioral scientists, and mechanical  engineers. The contents of the Course are especially focused to give a global perspective to the road safety and injury control problems.

By the end of the Course the participants should:

1. know about the latest findings in methodologies for traffic planning prevention of traffic accident and injuries
2. be aware of policies and methods which have been shown to be successful or have not worked in the past
3. be able to improve or start their own programmes on traffic planning and safety promotion.
   

Participants
The Course will have a limited number of participants who must be fluent in English. The participants will be selected on the basis of their involvement in transportation planning and road safety research, involvement in policy making and implementation of safety measures.  An attempt will be made to have a balanced mix of engineers, law enforcers, social scientists and medical professionals.

Participating Institutions
Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Programme(TRIPP), Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India.
The faculty members associated with TRIPP have been involved in safety research for the past two decades.  The Institute has been designated as the WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Safety Technology.  The members of TRIPP have expertise in epidemiological studies, designs of vehicles and safety equipment, traffic flow modelling, transportation planning and care of injured persons.

Institut National De Recherche Sur Les Transports et Leur Securite (INRETS) is the French National Institute for Transport and Safety Research, under the authority of both the Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Research, INRETS has a staff of 400 persons and over 25 years experience in road safety research and injury prevention.  INRETS was designated as a WHO Collaborating Centre for Accident Prevention in 1990.

The International Research Council on the Biomechanics of Impacts (IRCOBI)
devotes itself to encourage research on impact biomechanics and injury mechanisms, provide a forum for the presentation and dissemination of these research findings, and serves as an advisory body on issues relating to impact biomechanics and injury mechanisms.

Course Outline

• Frequency and nature of injuries
• Biomechanics of impact
• Injury severity scaling
• Vehicle crashworthiness
• Advances in restraint systems

Faculty
Anoop Chawla IIT, Delhi, India: Crash modeling
Dietmar Otte Medical Univ. Hannover, Germany: Crash analysis
Dinesh Mohan IIT Delhi, India: Bio-mechanics and Road Safety
Dominique Cesari INRETS, Franch: Biomechanics
Elaine Wodzin International Injury Scaling - Committee: Injury Scaling
Geetam Tiwari  IIT Delhi, India: Transport planning and road design
Harald Zellmer Autoliv Research and Development, Germany: Restraint Systems
Hermann Knoflacher Technical University of Vienna: Traffic Calming and Road Designs
Jac Wismans TNO, Netherlands: Crashworthiness
Marie-Chantel Jayet DERA, INRETS - France: Evaluation Methods
Mathew Varghese St. Stephen's Hospital, Delhi, India: Pre Hospital Care
Murray Mackay Univ. of Birmingham, UK: Biomechanics and Transport Safety
Nicole Muhlrad DERA, INRETS, France: Safety Management
Sanjeev Sanghi IIT, Delhi, India: Vehicular Emissions
Shrikant Bangdiwala Univ. of North Carolina, USA: Data Analysis
Sudipto Mukherjee IIT Delhi, India: Crash Modeling
Sylvain Lassarre INRETS, Franch: Risk Analysis

Fees
Indian industry and international participants: US$ 500 or INR 10,000
Indian educational institutions & public sector organisations: INR 5,000

All fees include tuition, course material, lunches and tea/coffee between morning and afternoon sessions.

Scholarship
Very limited funds are available. For details please refer to the course application form.

Accommodation
Lodging arrangements will be made on request in the IIT Delhi guest house @ US $ 25 per day or in a hotel for US $ 50 - 130 per day. Both are based on double occupancy including breakfast.