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Ridehailing and alcohol-involved traffic fatalities in the United States: The average and heterogeneous association of uber
Ridehailing services such as Uber have been promoted as viable interventions for curbing alcohol-involved driving fatalities. However, evidence of ridehailing’s impact has been mixed, with some studies finding no association but others finding either an increase or a decrease in fatalities. We contr...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7485824/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32915851 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0238744 |
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description | Ridehailing services such as Uber have been promoted as viable interventions for curbing alcohol-involved driving fatalities. However, evidence of ridehailing’s impact has been mixed, with some studies finding no association but others finding either an increase or a decrease in fatalities. We contribute to this literature by examining more recent years of data, which capture a period during which Uber ridership has grown substantially and alcohol-involved fatalities have increased. Furthermore, we test whether the relationship between Uber availability and traffic fatalities depends on local characteristics. We employ multivariate regression models to test the association between Uber availability and total, alcohol-involved, and weekend and holiday-specific traffic fatalities in the 100 most populated metropolitan areas in the United States between 2009 and 2017. We find that Uber availability is not associated with changes in total, alcohol-involved, and weekend and holiday-specific traffic fatalities in aggregate, yet it is associated with increased traffic fatalities in urban, densely populated counties. |
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spelling | pubmed-74858242020-09-21 Ridehailing and alcohol-involved traffic fatalities in the United States: The average and heterogeneous association of uber Brazil, Noli Kirk, David PLoS One Research Article Ridehailing services such as Uber have been promoted as viable interventions for curbing alcohol-involved driving fatalities. However, evidence of ridehailing’s impact has been mixed, with some studies finding no association but others finding either an increase or a decrease in fatalities. We contribute to this literature by examining more recent years of data, which capture a period during which Uber ridership has grown substantially and alcohol-involved fatalities have increased. Furthermore, we test whether the relationship between Uber availability and traffic fatalities depends on local characteristics. We employ multivariate regression models to test the association between Uber availability and total, alcohol-involved, and weekend and holiday-specific traffic fatalities in the 100 most populated metropolitan areas in the United States between 2009 and 2017. We find that Uber availability is not associated with changes in total, alcohol-involved, and weekend and holiday-specific traffic fatalities in aggregate, yet it is associated with increased traffic fatalities in urban, densely populated counties. Public Library of Science 2020-09-11 /pmc/articles/PMC7485824/ /pubmed/32915851 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0238744 Text en © 2020 Brazil, Kirk http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Brazil, Noli Kirk, David Ridehailing and alcohol-involved traffic fatalities in the United States: The average and heterogeneous association of uber |
title | Ridehailing and alcohol-involved traffic fatalities in the United States: The average and heterogeneous association of uber |
title_full | Ridehailing and alcohol-involved traffic fatalities in the United States: The average and heterogeneous association of uber |
title_fullStr | Ridehailing and alcohol-involved traffic fatalities in the United States: The average and heterogeneous association of uber |
title_full_unstemmed | Ridehailing and alcohol-involved traffic fatalities in the United States: The average and heterogeneous association of uber |
title_short | Ridehailing and alcohol-involved traffic fatalities in the United States: The average and heterogeneous association of uber |
title_sort | ridehailing and alcohol-involved traffic fatalities in the united states: the average and heterogeneous association of uber |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7485824/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32915851 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0238744 |
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