Where does bicycling for health happen? Analysing volunteered geographic information through place and plexus

Journal of Transport and Health

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 238-247

  Griffin, Greg P ^a,b   Jiao, Junfeng ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Bicycling; Built environment; Crowdsourcing; GIS; Health; VGI

Indexed keywords

EID: 84955200282     PISSN: 22141405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jth.2014.12.001     Document Type: Article

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