Built environmental designs in promoting pedestrian safety

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 9444-9460

  Yu, Chia Yuan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Built environment; Hierarchical data; Injury severity; Multilevel model; Pedestrian

Indexed keywords

CENSUS; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CORRELATION; DATA SET; DESIGN; DISEASE SEVERITY; INJURY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PEDESTRIAN; POPULATION DENSITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; ROAD TRANSPORT; TRANSPORTATION SAFETY;

AUSTIN; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84938404886     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su7079444     Document Type: Article

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