Estimating urban trail traffic: Methods for existing and proposed trails

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 299-315

  Lindsey, Greg ^a   Wilson, Jeff ^a   Rubchinskaya, Elena ^a   Yang, Jihui ^a   Han, Yuling ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Forecasting; Greenways; Trail use; Urban trails

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TRAFFIC CONTROL; UNITED STATES;

GREENWAYS; TRAIL USE; URBAN TRAILS;

URBAN PLANNING;

GREENSPACE; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT; URBAN TRANSPORT;

INDIANA; INDIANAPOLIS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34250018507     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2007.01.004     Document Type: Article

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