Increasing active travel: aims, methods and baseline measures of a quasi-experimental study.

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Published in BMC Public Health on September 08, 2014

Authors

Ralph Chapman1, Philippa Howden-Chapman, Michael Keall, Karen Witten, Wokje Abrahamse, Alistair Woodward, Dylan Muggeridge, Jean Beetham, Mark Grams

Author Affiliations

1: NZ Centre for Sustainable Cities, and Victoria University of Wellington, Environmental Studies Programme, SGEES, P,O, Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand. ralph.chapman@vuw.ac.nz.

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