Associations between street connectivity and active transportation
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Associations between street connectivity and active transportation
BACKGROUND Past studies of associations between measures of the built environment, particularly street connectivity, and active transportation (AT) or leisure walking/bicycling have largely failed to account for spatial autocorrelation of connectivity variables and have seldom examined both the propensity for AT and its duration in a coherent fashion. Such efforts could improve our understandin...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Health Geographics
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1476-072X
DOI: 10.1186/1476-072x-9-20