Safety and school travel

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 2327, 2012, Pages 9-18

  Larsen, Kristian ^a   Buliung, Ron ^a   Faulkner, Guy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

BUILT ENVIRONMENT; MODES OF TRAVELS; NEIGHBOURHOOD; NUMBER OF VEHICLES; PATH ANALYSIS; SCHOOL TRAVELS; SHORT-PATH; TRAFFIC COUNTS; TRAFFIC DATA; TRAVEL ROUTES;

PEDESTRIAN SAFETY;

EID: 84881398442     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2327-02     Document Type: Article

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