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Table 1 Summary of traffic metrics

From: Residential traffic exposure and children's emergency department presentation for asthma: a spatial study

 

Metric

Type of metric

Data source

Interpretation

1

Kernel density

Point pattern

MRWA

High vs low traffic area based on locations of monitoring sites

2

Distance-weighted traffic density

(All traffic, Truck traffic)

Weighted traffic counts

Video monitoring

Vehicle kilometres travelled per peak traffic hour weighted by a pollutant decay function of distance

3

Distance to nearest major road

Linear distance

EDIS

MRWA

Distance to nearest road carrying more than 15,000 vehicles per day

4

Road length

Road density

Road characteristics

 

Length of road or density of road within a circular buffer