Parental attitudes toward children walking and bicycling to school

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 2323, 2012, Pages 46-55

  Seraj, Saamiya ^a   Sidharthan, Raghuprasad ^a   Bhat, Chandra ^a   Pendyala, Ram ^b   Goulias, Konstadinos ^c  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b Arizona State University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

'CURRENT; ATTITUDES AND PERCEPTIONS; BUILT ENVIRONMENT; CALIFORNIA; CHILDHOOD OBESITY; NATIONAL HOUSEHOLD TRAVEL SURVEYS; ORDERED RESPONSE MODELS; RECENT RESEARCHES; SOCIODEMOGRAPHICS; TRAVEL MODES;

EID: 84872859319     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2323-06     Document Type: Article

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