Gasoline prices and traffic safety in Mississippi

Guangqing Chi; Arthur G Cosby; Mohammed A Quddus; Paul A Gilbert; David Levinson

doi:10.1016/j.jsr.2010.10.003

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Gasoline prices and traffic safety in Mississippi

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Gasoline prices and traffic safety in Mississippi

Guangqing Chi, Arthur G Cosby, Mohammed A Quddus, Paul A Gilbert and David Levinson

Journal of safety research, Vol.41(6), pp.493-500

2010

DOI: 10.1016/j.jsr.2010.10.003

PMID: 21134515

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Abstract

Limited literature suggests that gasoline prices have substantial effects on reducing fatal crashes. However, the literature focuses only on fatal crashes and does not examine the effects on all traffic crashes. Mississippi traffic crash data from April 2004–December 2008 from the Mississippi Highway Patrol and regular-grade unleaded gasoline price data from the Energy Information Administration of the U.S. Department of Energy were used to investigate the effects of gasoline prices on traffic safety by age, gender, and race. Gasoline prices have both short-term and intermediate-term effects on reducing total traffic crashes and crashes of females, whites, and blacks. The intermediate-term effects are generally stronger than the short-term effects. Gasoline prices also have short-term effects on reducing crashes of younger drivers and intermediate-term effects on older drivers and male drivers. Higher gasoline taxes reduce traffic crashes and may result in additional societal benefits. ► This study examines all traffic crashes rather than only fatal crashes. ► Higher gasoline prices lead to fewer crashes of younger drivers immediately. ► Higher gasoline prices lead to fewer crashes of the older and males at a one-year lag. ► Both immediate and one-year-lag effects exist for females, whites, and blacks. ► The effects are stronger at a one-year lag than those at current time.

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Title: Subtitle: Gasoline prices and traffic safety in Mississippi
Creators: Guangqing Chi - Department of Sociology and Social Science Research Center, Mississippi State University, PO Box C, Mississippi State, MS 39762, USA
Arthur G Cosby - Social Science Research Center, Mississippi State University, PO Box 5287, Mississippi State, MS 39762, USA
Mohammed A Quddus - Department of Civil and Building Engineering, Loughborough University, Leicestershire LE11 3TU, United Kingdom
Paul A Gilbert - Department of Sociology, Mississippi State University, PO Box C, Mississippi State, MS 39762, USA
David Levinson - Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota, 500 Pillsbury Drive SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Resource Type: Journal article
Publication Details: Journal of safety research, Vol.41(6), pp.493-500
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsr.2010.10.003
PMID: 21134515
NLM abbreviation: J Safety Res
ISSN: 0022-4375
eISSN: 1879-1247
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Language: English
Date published: 2010
Academic Unit: Community and Behavioral Health
Record Identifier: 9984215019402771

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