EDITORS Geetam Tiwari obtained her B. Arch from the University of Roorkee and Master of Urban Planning and Policy, and Ph.D. in Transport Planning and Policy, from the University of Illinois, Chicago. Currently she is MoUD Chair Professor for Transport Planning at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and Adlerbretska Guest Professor for sustainable urban transport at the Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden 2007-2010. She has extensive research experience in dealing with transportation issues of special relevance to low income countries. These include development of bus systems and road designs that would make transportation efficient and safer. She has been working in the area of traffic and transport planning focusing on pedestrians, bicycles and bus systems. She has published over 70 research papers on transportation planning and safety in national and international journals and peer reviewed seminar proceedings, as well as edited four books on transportation planning and road safety. She received theInternational Velocity Falco Lecture Prize, Barcelona, Spain, the Stockholm Partnerships award for local impact, innovative thinking and a potential for replication or transferability, and Centre for Excellence grant from Volvo Research and Educational Foundations (VREF), IRTE & Prince Michaels award for promoting road safety research and LMA (Lucknow Management Association) award for woman achiever, 2010. She is advisor to Urban Age series of conferences coordinated by London School of Economics since 2005. She alsois editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion. Dinesh Mohan is Honorary Professor at theIndian Institute of Technology Delhi, Distinguished Professor Shiv Nadar University & Director Independent Council for Road Safety International. He is member of the WHO Advisory Panel on Accident Prevention. He serves on the editorial boards of 4 international journals dealing with safety.Professor Mohan has been a consultant on safety related matters to government departments in India, Nepal, Indonesia, Thailand, Bangladesh, Iraq and Libya and automotive industries including TELCO, Ashok Leyland, Volvo Trucks, Eicher Motors Ltd., Escorts Ltd., Maruti Udyog Ltd., SIAM, Bajaj Auto Ltd. and also to international organisations like the World Bank and WHO. Professor Mohan’s research includes the following areas: transportation research (safety and pollution), human tolerance biomechanics, motor-vehicle safety, road traffic injuries, childhood injuries, effectiveness of automobile safety equipment, evaluation of injuries to cyclists and motorcyclists, motorcycle helmet design, evaluation of government’s and motor-vehicle manufacturer's standards concerning motor-vehicle safety. He is the recipient of: (1) Distinguished Career Award from the University of Delaware (USA) & Distinguished Alumnus Award 2002 from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. (2) International Research Council on Biokinetics of Impact’s 2001 Bertil Aldman Award for Outstanding Research on the Biomechanics of Impacts; (3) American Public Health Association International Distinguished Career Award in recognition of dedication and leadership in the area of injury research and teaching, with contributions and achievements that have significant and long term impact on the problem of injury prevention and control; (4) The International Velo-City Falco Lecture Prize (5) The Association for Advancement of Automotive Medicine’s 1991 Award of Merit for outstanding research in traffic safety; (6) The 1991 International Association for Accident & Traffic Medicine’s International Award and Medal for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Traffic Medicine. CONTRIBUTORS A G Krishna Menon A G Krishna Menon is an architect, urban planner and conservation consultant practicing in Delhi for over 30 years. He has been simultaneously teaching in Delhi and in 1990 co-founded the TVB School of Habitat Studies in New Delhi, and is currently its Director. He is actively engaged in research, has contributed extensively to professional journals and several academic books. He has been actively involved in urban conservation and has been associated with the formulation of The Delhi Master Plan – 2021, The National Capital Region Master Plan – 2021 and is a Member of several statutory Committees set up by the Government. Arif Hasan Arif Hasan is an architect/planner in private practice in Karachi. He studied architecture at the Oxford Polytechnic and on his return to Karachi in 1968, established an independent practice which slowly evolved into dealing with urban planning and development issues. He has been a consultant and advisor to many local and foreign CBOs, national and international NGOs, and bilateral and multilateral donor agencies. Since 1982, he has been involved with the Orangi Pilot Project (OPP) and is the founder Chairman of the Urban Resource Centre (URC), Karachi, since its inception in
