What Can Meta-analysis Tell Us about the Implications of Transport?

BUTTON K. (1995) What meta-analysis tell us about the implications of transport?, Reg. Studies 29, 507–517. Recent years have seen a significant upsurge of studies seeking to examine the wider impacts of transport. The outcome has been a wide range of results and conclusions. A number of extremely useful surveys have emerged that have brought together much of this work and offered critical assessment of the methods used and of the results generated. These surveys have, however, tended to be of a traditional literary nature and have often produced lists of findings and taxonomies of procedures employed. The aim of this paper is to apply meta-analysis in order to gain greater insights into the causes of the variations in results obtained, for example in relation to techniques used, country of study and context of work. BUTTON K. (1995) Quelles sont les lecons a tirer de la meta-analyse pour ce qui est du transport?, Reg. Studies 29, 507-517. Ces dernieres annees ont temoie d'une montee sensible du nombre de...

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