Pedestrian safety practitioners' perspectives of driver yielding behavior across North America

Transportation Research Record

Volumn 2519, Issue , 2015, Pages 39-50

  Schneider, Robert J ^a   Sanders, Rebecca L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; HIGHWAY PLANNING; PEDESTRIAN SAFETY;

EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; GEOGRAPHIC DIFFERENCE; INTERNET SURVEY; PERCEPTION OF DRIVERS; ROADWAY DESIGN; SOCIAL NORM; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK; TRAVEL SPEED; YIELDING BEHAVIOR; YIELDING RATE;

CROSSWALKS;

EID: 84976596617     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: 21694052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2519-05     Document Type: Article

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