Long Term Impacts of California's Graduated Licensing Law of 1998

With fatal and injury crash data from California's Statewide Integrated Traffic Records System (SWITRS), this study used standard regression analysis as well as the Bai-Perron stochastic multiple structural break model to determine the effect of the law on teen-age passengers and crash rates of 16 year-old drivers. The authors found that in the four and one-half years following implementation of the new law, crashes caused by 16 year-old drivers decreased by 11% and the average number of teen-age passengers carried by 16 year-olds decreased by approximately 31%. The combination of these two decreases resulted in the saving of 29 lives and the prevention of 2,632 injuries.

• Record URL:
  https://merritt.cdlib.org/d/ark%3A%2F13030%2Fm53b61t6/2/producer%2FPRR-2005-25.pdf
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Originally published in July 2005
• Corporate Authors:

  University of California, Berkeley

  Institute of Transportation Studies
  McLaughlin Hall
  Berkeley, CA  United States  94720

  University of California, Berkeley

  California PATH Program, Institute of Transportation Studies
  Richmond Field Station, 1357 South 46th Street
  Richmond, CA  United States  94804-4648

  California Department of Transportation

  Office of Research, P.O. Box 942873
  Sacramento, CA  United States  94273-0001
• Authors:
  • Cooper, D
  • Gillen, D
  • Atkins, F
• Publication Date: 2005-8

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Pagination: 30p
• Serial:
  • PATH Research Report
  • Publisher: University of California, Berkeley
  • ISSN: 1055-1425

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Evaluation; Graduated licensing; Highway safety; Legislation; Passengers; Traffic safety
• Uncontrolled Terms: Driving hours; Road safety (human factors)
• Geographic Terms: California
• ATRI Terms: Crash countermeasure; Driving hours; Evaluation; Graduated licence; Legislation; Passenger; Road safety
• Subject Areas: Highways; Law; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01388822
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• Report/Paper Numbers: UCB-ITS-PRR-2005-25
• Files: PATH, CALTRANS, TRIS, ATRI, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Aug 23 2012 1:19AM