Ride-Hailing and Road Traffic Crashes: A Critical Review

This article presents a study that reviewed and synthesized available evidence examining the impacts of ride-hailing (using services such as Uber and Lyft) on road traffic crash injuries and fatalities. The studies included in the authors’ analysis include peer-reviewed as well as non–peer-reviewed studies, such as reports, theses, and working papers. The authors note that many of the latter, non-peer-reviewed studies are highly cited in this fairly-new area of research. The authors present a theoretical model that describes the many pathways through which the exposure may affect the outcome, focus on the research methodology of the different types of studies, and identify critical gaps to be addressed in future research. The authors note the seemingly-divergent findings from studies of ride-hailing and traffic safety, hypothesizing that these mixed results may be due to heterogeneous impacts on vehicular traffic flow (e.g., increasing the volume of vehicles); on vehicle-, person-, and event-level characteristics (e.g., reducing alcohol-impaired driver crashes); on road-user types (e.g., increasing pedestrian crashes); and on environmental conditions (e.g., reducing crashes most substantially where public transit access is poorest). A final section briefly discusses how certain innovations could make ride-hailing have a more positive impact on public health.

• Record URL:
  http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwac033
• Availability:
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• Authors:
  • Morrison, Christopher N
  • Kirk, David S
  • Brazil, Noli B
  • Humphreys, David K
• Publication Date: 2022

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: pp 751-758
• Serial:
  • American Journal of Epidemiology
  • Volume: 191
  • Issue Number: 5
  • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
  • ISSN: 0002-9262
  • Serial URL: http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crash causes; Crash injuries; Fatalities; Public health; Ridesourcing; Socioeconomic factors
• Subject Areas: Highways; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01848990
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 21 2022 10:31AM