Sustainable road safety: A new (?) neighbourhood road pattern that saves VRU lives

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 140-148

  Wei, Vicky Feng ^a,b   Lovegrove, Gord ^a,b  

^a Faculty of Applied Science   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

3 way offset; Bicycling; Collision prediction models; Community design; Fused grid; Road patterns; Road safety; Sustainable; Vulnerable road users

Indexed keywords

3 WAY OFFSET; BICYCLING; COLLISION PREDICTION MODEL; COMMUNITY DESIGN; FUSED GRID; ROAD PATTERNS; ROAD SAFETY; ROAD USERS; SUSTAINABLE;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ENERGY UTILIZATION; GREENHOUSE GASES; LAND USE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOTOR TRANSPORTATION; RESEARCH;

ROADS AND STREETS;

BICYCLE; CITY PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; HEALTH; HUMAN; INJURY; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; NETHERLANDS; REVIEW; RISK; SAFETY; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; VULNERABLE POPULATION; WALKING;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; BICYCLING; CITY PLANNING; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NETHERLANDS; RISK; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS; WALKING; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 80755172108     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2010.12.005     Document Type: Article

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