Can a community inject public health values into transportation questions ?

Author(s)
Brugge, D. Leong, A. & Lai, Z.
Year
Abstract

For a residential community, Boston's Chinatown has an extraordinarily large among of vehicular traffic. Congested streets are packed with traffic day and night, seven days a week. In this article, the authors describe how a community-university collaboration brought public health and safety into the local transportation policy-making process by supplementing traditional "level of service" and vehicle volume analyses with injury data. (A)

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990355 ST [electronic version only]
Source

Public Health Reports, Vol. 114 (1999), No. 1 (January/February), p. 40-47, 26 ref.

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