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The effect of transport behaviour on the public health is a widely discussed matter, and a lot of research projects have been dedicated to measuring the scale of the effect. The authors of the article assume that a set of factors can be used to determine the transport choices of the general public, which in turn leads to a certain shape of the public health. Data from 241 respondents in the Tricity Area was connected to establish the strength and direction of these relations.
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Suchanek, M., Pawłowska, J. (2018). Effects of Transport Behaviour on Public Health: A Study on the Students in the Tricity Area. In: Suchanek, M. (eds) New Research Trends in Transport Sustainability and Innovation. TranSopot 2017. Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74461-2_3
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