Urban Street Pattern and Pedestrian Traffic Safety

Journal of Urban Design

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 337-352

  Rifaat, Shakil Mohammad ^a   Tay, Richard ^b   de Barros, Alexandre ^c  

^a ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Bangladesh)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PEDESTRIAN; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT; TRANSPORTATION SAFETY; URBAN AREA; URBAN DESIGN; URBAN TRANSPORT;

ALBERTA; CALGARY; CANADA;

EID: 84861956965     PISSN: 13574809     EISSN: 14699664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13574809.2012.683398     Document Type: Article

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