Making Sense of a New Transport System: An Ethnographic Study of the Cambridgeshire Guided Busway

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Jones, Caroline H D ^a,c   Cohn, Simon ^b   Ogilvie, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; MALE; PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PUBLIC TRANSPORT; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; TRAVEL; UNITED KINGDOM; WALKING;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; ENGLAND; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 84880768469     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0069254     Document Type: Article

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