Beliefs, motives and situational factors related to pedestrians' self-reported behavior at signal-controlled crossings

Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-13

  Yagil, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Gender; Health motives; Pedestrians; Risk taking; Road crossing behaviour

Indexed keywords

EID: 0043186279     PISSN: 13698478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1369-8478(00)00004-8     Document Type: Article

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