A community-wide intervention to improve pedestrian safety: Guidelines for institutionalizing large-scale behavior change

Environment and Behavior

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 502-520

  Boyce, Thomas E ^a   Geller, E Scott ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b Center for Applied Behavior Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PEDESTRIAN; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING; TRANSPORTATION SAFETY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033902403     PISSN: 00139165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/00139160021972630     Document Type: Article

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