Cycle safety - Measuring the crash risk

Road and Transport Research

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 20-31

  Turner, Shane ^a   Hughes, Tim ^b   Allatt, Tracy ^a   Wood, Graham ^a   Luo, Qingwei ^c  

^a Beca   (New Zealand)

^b NZ Transport Agency   (New Zealand)

^c MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRASH MODELS; CRASH RISK; CYCLE FLOWS; HEALTH BENEFITS; LAND TRANSPORT; MOTOR VEHICLE; NEW ZEALAND; ROAD LINKS; TRAFFIC FLOW; URBAN AREAS; VEHICLE FLOW;

HEALTH RISKS; ROADS AND STREETS; TRAFFIC SIGNALS; TRAFFIC SURVEYS; TRANSPORTATION; VEHICLES;

TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

EID: 78651350813     PISSN: 10375783     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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