PI
Noli Brazil
Contact Email
nbrazil@ucdavis.edu
Team
David Kirk, Professor, Department of sociology, Nuffield College at the University of Oxford
Acknowledgments
TBA
Description
Ride-sharing services started 10 years ago in select cities in the United States and has rapidly dispersed across the country. Some have argued that ridesharing could curtail the extensive amount of drunk driving that occurs in the country. Indeed, Uber, the largest ridesharing company in the United States, claimed on its website that a city with its services has fewer drunk drivers on the streets. This claim went largely untested until recently. While some studies found evidence that ridesharing presence is associated with a decline in drunk-driving related fatalities, others found either no decline or decreases in some cities but not in others. Two important factors may be contributing to these contradictory results. First, studies have examined a period (late 2000s-early 2010s) during which ridesharing was in its earliest stages of adoption for most cities. Second, studies estimated average effects rather than testing the moderating influence of various city-level factors such as population density and the quality of public transportation. The current project updates the first national study of ridesharing’s influence on drunk-driving fatalities by including recent years of data (2015-2017) and testing various factors that might explain differential associations between ridesharing presence and drunk-driving fatalities. The project will answer the following research questions: First, what is the association between Uber deployment and drunk-driving fatality rates in US metropolitan areas since 2014, the last year of data in the first study? Second, what city-level factors moderate the relationship between Uber deployment and drunk-driving fatalities? I will test various demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, the reliance on and quantity and quality of transportation options, and spatial aspects of various built environment variables.
Resources
JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
- Christopher N Morrison, David S Kirk, Noli B Brazil, David K Humphreys, Ride-Hailing and Road Traffic Crashes: A Critical Review, American Journal of Epidemiology, Volume 191, Issue 5, May 2022, Pages 751–758, https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwac033
- David Kirk, Nicolo Cvallibo and Noli Brazil. (2020) The implications of ridehailing for risky driving and road accident injuries and fatalities. Social Science & Medicine Available online 11 January 2020, 112793 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.112793
- Noli Brazil and David Kirk (2020) Ridehailing and alcohol-involved traffic fatalities in the United States: The average and heterogeneous association of uber. Plos One. September 11, 2020 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0238744
PRESENTATIONS and WEBINARS
REPORTS
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
- Influence of Ridehailing Availability on Driving Injuries and Fatalities ITS-Davis. Noli Brazil. Presented at Workshop 1341: Potential Influence of Alternative Transportation on Impaired Driving Traffic Outcomes. TRB 2020 [link]
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