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Beginning with a description of the problem in a variety of countries, the authors suggest possible future patterns for each stage and type of motorisation. What follows is a thoughtful, but necessarily brief discussion of three major issues: the problems and achievements made in many countries by institutions with a role in traffic safety, a range of injury-reduction strategies, from control of exposure to emergency and treatment services, and a discussion of some of the programs that have been or might be developed to implement these strategies. At this point, the authors argue the need for adequate information: this is required not only to establish a case for specific programs, but to enable rational policy development and to evaluate actions that have been taken.

The monograph concludes with a summary of the problems and a series of rec- ommendations to the world at large. While some of these are addressed to each country, most involve international cooperation and coordination in both the public (e.g. the World Bank, the United Nations) and the private sector.

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

Head and Neck Injury in Road Accidents. Proceedings of a Symposium held 10-11 December, 1985, The University of Adelaide, South Australia. NH & MRC Road Accident Research Unit, Adelaide, Australia, 1988. ISBN o-908204-13-2.

Session A: Head and neck injury in Australia (A. J. McLean, l-4); Perspectives on head injury research (D. C. Viano, 5-22); Discussion (23-25); Spinal cord injury- development of a.data collection system (D. C. Burke, H. T. Burley and G. H. Ungar, 27-38); Discussion (39-40); Biomechanics and sequelae of impacts to the mid and lower face region in relation to the road accident situation (P. J. Chapman, 41-47); Bicycle helmet design to Australian standards (I. B. Hand, 49-56); Discussion (57-59); Aus- tralian helmet standards and their enforcement (M. R. Wigan, 61-72); Discussion (73- 74); Current status of international standards on helmets. Abstract and discussion (J. B. Pedder, 75-76); Summary of discussion session A (77-78).

Session B: Neuropathological aspects of head injury (P. C. Blumbergs, 79-85); acute subdural hematoma-pathology and mechanisms (N. Jones, 87-92); Discussion (93-94); Closed head injuries in infants and children: causes and outcomes (D. A. Simpson, 95- 99); Discussion (100-101); Cervical spine injury following road trauma (R. D. Fraser, 103-104); Discussion (105-106); Summary of discussion session B (107-108).

Session C: Head and neck modelling (J. Wismans, 109-120); Discussion (121-122); Simulation of pedestrian head impacts (T. Gibson and R. Hinrichs. 123-134); Discussion (135); Summary of discussion session C (137-139).

Intersections Without Traffic Signals. W. Brilon (ed.). Proceedings of an International Workshop, 16-18 March, 1988, Bochum, West Germany. Springer-Verlag, New York, NY, U.S.A., 1988. ISBN o-387-18890-8.

Current and future Australian practices for the design of unsignalized intersections (R. J. Troutbeck, 1-19); The Design of unsignalized intersections in the UK (R. M. Kimber, 20-34); Status of unsignalized intersection capacity research in the United States (J. D. Zegeer, 35-47); Safety and design of unsignalized intersections in France (J. M. Gam- bard, 48-61); Research on traffic performance of Major/minor priority intersections (M. Tracz, 62-79); Swedish research on unsignalized intersections (J. Anveden, 80-102); Research on unsignalized intersections with impact on the Czechoslovak design standard (P. Jirava and P. Karlicky, 103-110); Recent developments in calculation meth-