Risk Factors & Road Safety Issues Online Course
Economic Risks: Mobility Barriers
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Transcript of audio
The next barrier is mobility barriers, where big roads and mobility corridors separate communities, causing children to live on the one side and schools, for example, to be on the other side. It has been established already in the early 80s by Appleyard that the barrier effect does split up communities.
For Appleyard’s 1981 diagram, click here, although we will be looking at this image again under the social factors pertaining to “Community Interaction.”
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