Open AccessThe “Path” Not Taken: Exploring Structural Differences in Mapped- Versus Shortest-Network-Path School Travel Routes
Author(s) -
Ron Buliung,
Kristian Larsen,
Guy Faulkner,
Michelle Stone
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2012.301172
Subject(s) - shortest path problem , wilcoxon signed rank test , path (computing) , path analysis (statistics) , intersection (aeronautics) , constrained shortest path first , average path length , computer science , statistics , medicine , psychology , mathematics , geography , k shortest path routing , computer network , theoretical computer science , cartography , graph , mann–whitney u test
School route measurement often involves estimating the shortest network path. We challenged the relatively uncritical adoption of this method in school travel research and tested the route discordance hypothesis that several types of difference exist between shortest network paths and reported school routes.