In Whren, we held that an individual officer's subjective intentions are irrelevant to the Fourth Amendment validity of a traffic stop that is justified objectively by probable cause to believe that a traffic violation has occurred.
Still, residents expressed concern that no study is being done under the State Environmental Quality Review Act, and they questioned the validity of the traffic study done on the project, which relied on numbers provided by Commerce Bank and was based on traffic through bank branches it selected.
January 9 , 20144.55pm GMT Yeah, why does he keep defending the validity of this traffic study?
The aim of this study was to investigate whether there were specific effects of cars and trucks traffic on current asthma symptoms (i.e. wheezing) and cough or phlegm, and to examine the validity of self-reported traffic exposure.
As such, the validity of the NICE traffic light system for detection of other serious bacterial infections (such as meningitis, osteomyelitis, and septic arthritis) could not be assessed with confidence.
A further aim was to evaluate the validity of self-reporting of traffic intensity in comparison with objective exposure assessment.
"When we see a sign, if we see a sign at all – for we may have trained our brains to typically ignore them – we may question its applicability to us, or its general validity," says Tom Vanderbilt, the author of Traffic, a book that explores how "perceptual countermeasures" can improve safety on the road.
The survey in [6] discussed the issue of occupancy modelling validity based on the type and amount of traffic pattern.
Using this equation, it is, for example, possible to compare the validity of different parameters for including traffic avoidance strategies.
One asset of our study is that we used Google Earth® and traffic volume provided by local authorities at mothers' address to check the validity of the subjectively measured exposure to traffic and thus minimise the exposure misclassification.
