Choosing Between Stairs and Escalator in Shopping Centers: The Impact of Location, Height, and Pedestrian Volume

Environment and Behavior

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 694-709

  Zacharias, John ^a   Ling, Richard ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

academic field; architecture; behavior change; cognition; content areas; place type; public health; public space; quantitative research; research methods; research setting

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC RESEARCH; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PEDESTRIAN; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC SPACE; SHOPPING ACTIVITY; SPATIAL COGNITION;

EID: 84930171260     PISSN: 00139165     EISSN: 1552390X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013916513520418     Document Type: Article

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