Planning for Safe Schools: Impacts of School Siting and Surrounding Environments on Traffic Safety

Journal of Planning Education and Research

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 476-486

  Yu, Chia Yuan ^a   Zhu, Xuemei ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

built environment; pedestrian crash; school siting; school travel safety; traffic safety

Indexed keywords

EID: 84994810756     PISSN: 0739456X     EISSN: 15526577     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0739456X15616460     Document Type: Article

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