Area-wide traffic calming for preventing traffic related injuries
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Area-wide traffic calming for preventing traffic related injuries.
BACKGROUND It is estimated that by 2020 road traffic crashes will have moved from ninth to third in the world disease burden ranking, as measured in disability adjusted life years, and second in developing countries. The identification of effective strategies for the prevention of traffic related injuries is of global health importance. Area-wide traffic calming schemes that discourage through ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
سال: 2003
ISSN: 1465-1858
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.cd003110