The development of policy-relevant transport indicators to monitor health behaviours and outcomes

Journal of Transport and Health

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 103-110

  Badland, Hannah ^a   Mavoa, Suzanne ^a   Villanueva, Karen ^a   Roberts, Rebecca ^a   Davern, Melanie ^a   Giles Corti, Billie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Geographical information systems; Liveability; Travel; Urban planning; Walkability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84929642128     PISSN: 22141405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jth.2014.07.005     Document Type: Article

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