Traffic safety and safe routes to schools: Synthesizing the empirical evidence

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 2009, 2007, Pages 89-97

  Dumbaugh, Eric ^a   Frank, Lawrence ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BICYCLES; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; TRAFFIC CONTROL;

SAFE ROUTES; TRAFFIC SAFETY;

PEDESTRIAN SAFETY;

EID: 38849199181     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2009-12     Document Type: Article

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