During day-to-day use, thousands of lives are lost each year due to accidents, directly or indirectly, resulting from poor transportation system reliability and safety. In the United States, automobile accidents alone result in around 42,000 deaths per year, costing billions of dollars to the economy each year. A common subject in journal articles
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"The book is full of statistics on road, air and marine accidents borrowed from various sources which makes this useful for an interested person to know about. ... does not require any background to understand these basics of reliability and safety which is the specialty of most of the books written by Professor Dhillon on these specialized topics. The book will be found useful for a student who is interested in pursuing the subject as a beginner."
- Krishna B. Misra in International Journal of Performability Engineering "The book is full of statistics on road, air and marine accidents borrowed from various sources which makes this useful for an interested person to know about. ... does not require any background to understand these basics of reliability and safety which is the specialty of most of the books written by Professor Dhillon on these specialized topics. The book will be found useful for a student who is interested in pursuing the subject as a beginner."- Krishna B. Misra in International Journal of Performability Engineering
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978-1-040-15782-4 (9781040157824)
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Introduction. Reliability and Safety Mathematics. Reliability and Safety Basics. Methods for Performing Transportation System Reliability and Safety Analysis. Transportation System Failures. Transportation System Reliability Modeling. Rail Safety. Truck and Bus Safety. Airline and Ship Safety. Human Error in Rail and Road Transportation Systems. Human Error in Aviation and Sea Transportation Systems.
