T hroughout the United States, citizens are asking their city traffic engineers to reduce “excessive” cut-through traffic and speeding cars on their local streets. A recent ZTE Journal article noted an “epidemic” of street closure requests,’ and many recent ITE articles have dealt with aspects of neighborhood traffic control. More and more, city and county traffic engineers must shift their att...

BACKGROUND Environmental and policy factors play an important role in influencing people's lifestyles, physical activity (PA), and risks for developing obesity. Research suggests that more walkable communities are needed to sustain lifelong PA behavior, but there is a need to determine what local built environment features facilitate making being active the easy choice. PURPOSE This county-le...

background: injuries and fatalities from road traffic injuries are global public health concerns, and a major problem in the iran. this study aimed to explore strategies to control road traffic injuries (rti) in iran. methods: we conducted a qualitative study to explore possible ways to reduce the occurrence of road traffic injuries in iran in 2016. interviewees were purposively sampled from va...

In the last three decades, the incidence of traffic crash fatalities and injuries has been reduced significantly in the high-income countries but not in the low- and middle-income countries. The traffic patterns in the former are not only different but are also less complex than those in the latter. Traffic in low-income countries comprises a much higher share of vulnerable road users and so ve...