-3 Safety & Health

<P>This section covers:<ul><li>Road safety pamphlets relating to pedestrian safety</li><li>Accident statistics</li><li>Reports and proposals for safety improvement</li><li>Safety strategies</li><li>Case studies and reports related to accident prevention</li><li>Case studies and reports related to street crime and perception of crime</li></ul></P>

Proportion of trips made by walking

Estimating a state-level baseline for healthy people in 2010 - objective 22-14 A paper investigating the number of short trips made by walking in Michigan, US
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Relationships among community characteristics and walking etc

A paper comparing walking and bicycling for transportation. The authors found that communities with more parks had significantly higher levels of walking and bicycling for transportation.
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The physical environment and physical activity

Moving from ecological associations to intervention evidence An editorial on physical activity and the physical environment.

Barriers to children walking to or from school (US)

United States - 2004 A research paper on barriers of American children walking to school
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