Pedestrian Safety and Transit Corridors
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Pedestrian Safety and Transit Corridors
This research examines the relationship between pedestrian accident locations on state-owned facilities (highways and urban arterials) and the presence of riders loading and alighting from bus transit. Many state facilities are important metropolitan transit corridors with large numbers of bus stops users, resulting in increased exposure of pedestrians to traffic and in increased numbers of col...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Public Transportation
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1077-291X,2375-0901
DOI: 10.5038/2375-0901.7.2.5