Safe Routes to Play? Pedestrian and Bicyclist Crashes Near Parks in Los Angeles

Environmental Research

Volumn 151, Issue , 2016, Pages 742-755

  Jerrett, Michael ^a,b   Su, Jason G ^b   MacLeod, Kara E ^a   Hanning, Cooper ^b   Houston, Douglas ^c   Wolch, Jennifer ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Active travel; Crash risk; GIS; Parks

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; GIS; LOW INCOME POPULATION; METROPOLITAN AREA; MINORITY GROUP; PEDESTRIAN; RISK FACTOR; SAFETY; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BICYCLE; BLACK PERSON; CALIFORNIA; CHILD; CHILDHOOD INJURY; CYCLING; FATALITY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INFANT; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MOTOR VEHICLE; NEIGHBORHOOD; PEDESTRIAN; PLAY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECREATIONAL PARK; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAFFIC SAFETY; INJURIES; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; THEORETICAL MODEL; WALKING; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

CALIFORNIA; LOS ANGELES COUNTY; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; BAYES THEOREM; BICYCLING; HUMANS; LOS ANGELES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PARKS, RECREATIONAL; PEDESTRIANS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WALKING; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84988904879     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2016.07.029     Document Type: Article

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