How Dangerous is Travel in the United States? (IMAGE)

Florida Atlantic University

How Dangerous is Travel in the United States?

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Louis A. Merlin, Ph.D., (standing) lead author and an assistant professor in FAU's School of Urban and Regional Planning, and collaborators, discovered that most studies of crash risk use ad-hoc and atheoretical models of the relationship between measures of the built environment, traffic collisions, and injuries -- an issue that almost certainly contributes to the wide range in reported findings.

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