Traffic Safety Research – Past Achievements and Future Opportunities

【Time】14:00pm－15:30pm, Sept. 29, 2016 (Thursday)

【Venue】Room B, Building 25-A

【Title】 Traffic Safety Research – Past Achievements and Future Opportunities

【Speaker】Dr. Leonard EVANS

【Host】Dr. Peng Liu

【Bio】Leonard Evans博士是交通安全领域国际知名学者，博士毕业于英国牛津大学。他是美国工程院院士，美国汽车工程师学会会士，美国人因工程与工效学学会会士。他目前是科学服务学会（Science Serving Society）主席。曾在美国通用GM从事33年研究工作。详细信息如下：Leonard Evans is an internationally renowned traffic safety expert with a doctorate in physics from Oxford University, England. He has presented traffic-safety lectures, including 22 Keynote Addresses, in 30 of the 59 countries he has visited. His 200 publications include Traffic Safety and the Driver (1991) and the distinctly different Traffic Safety (2004). Both books have received rave reviews and been repeatedly called classics. Traffic Safety is used in more than 50 countries, as a college course text in many, including US universities. Dr. Evans' research has received awards from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the International Traffic Medicine Association (ITMA), the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine (AAAM), the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES), the International Association for Accident and Traffic Medicine, the Detroit Institute of Ophthalmology, the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), and General Motors (GM). He has been president of ITMA and AAAM, the only individual to have headed both organizations. He is president of Science Serving Society, a one-man organization he formed in 2000 to continue research and other professional activities after completing a 33-year research career with GM. Dr. Evans was a Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer (2001-2002), and recipient of the SAE Lloyd L. Withrow Distinguished Speaker Award (2005, and also 2006). He is a fellow of the SAE, a fellow of HFES, a fellow of the AAAM, President Emeritus of the ITMA, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.