The rapid rise of e-scooters (electric scooters) in cities around the world, boosted by the introduction of shared e-scooter services has visibly reshaped the way people move around cities, sparking both excitement and controversy. With the increase in popularity of these vehicles, concerns...

This study presents an exploratory analysis of the key factors contributing to fatal and severe crashes on German motorways. We employ Poisson and Negative Binomial regression models, combined with Lasso regularization and stability selection, to explore model specifications incorporating...

In 2022, 20 640 people were killed in road accidents in the EU, with pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists particularly at risk. The EU aims at halving road fatalities and serious injuries by 2030 and getting close to zero by 2050. We assessed whether the Commission had been effective at...

In 2022, 20 640 people were killed in road accidents in the EU, with pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists particularly at risk. The EU aims at halving road fatalities and serious injuries by 2030 and getting close to zero by 2050. We assessed whether the Commission had been effective at...

Alcohol exclusion provisions, embedded in the Uniform Accident and Sickness Policy Provision Law (UPPL), allow health insurance providers to punish alcohol consumption by permitting them to deny claims for injuries stemming from alcohol impairment or the use of non-prescribed narcotics. Although...

This study analyzes how the willingness to pay (WTP) for a risk reduction for traffic accidents varies depending on the specific traffic safety measures and whether they are framed as public or private goods. Building on previous studies, we designed and conducted a contingent valuation survey...

This study analyzes how the willingness to pay (WTP) for a risk reduction for traffic accidents varies depending on the specific traffic safety measures and whether they are framed as public or private goods. Building on previous studies, we designed and conducted a contingent valuation survey...

Road traffic jams are a major problem in most cities of the world, resulting in massive delays, increased fuel wastage, and monetary and productivity losses. Unlike conventional computer networks, which experience congestion due to excessive traffic, road transportation networks can experience...

Regulation (EU) 2018/8581. establishes the role and obligations of economic operators, Member States and the European Commission regarding the type approval and compliance of motor vehicles placed on the EU market. Article 2 of the regulation provides the measures needed when automotive products...

Thanks to the EU General Safety Regulation, all vehicles in the EU will now have to be equipped with a series of new safety features to assist the driver and help better protect passengers, pedestrians and cyclists across the EU. The rules also establish the first legal framework to allow...

Thanks to the EU General Safety Regulation, all vehicles in the EU will now have to be equipped with a series of new safety features to assist the driver and help better protect passengers, pedestrians and cyclists across the EU. The rules also establish the first legal framework to allow...

Traffic safety has been a persistent societal and public policy challenge. Conventional law enforcement by human police is often cost-ineffective due to the information asymmetry and negative externality that arise from unsafe driving behaviors. Recent decades have seen a rise of automated...

In a recent article, Guerra et al. (2022c) considered the problem of liability for accidents caused by the activity of robots, proposing a novel liability regime, which they referred to as ‘manufacturer’s residual liability.’ Under this regime, injurers (robot operators) and victims are...

Background: Road safety policies (RSPs) have emerged worldwide. Yet, while an important group of RSPs have been regarded as necessary to reduce traffic crashes and their consequences, the impact of others remain inconclusive. To advance knowledge on this debate, this article focuses on the...

This paper analyses the effects of new bike lanes on traffic volume, congestion, and accidents. In order to obtain causal estimates, I exploit the quasi-random timing and location of newly built cycle lanes. Crucially, the new cycling infrastructure replaces existing car lanes thereby reducing...

We estimate the causal effect of shared e-scooter services on traffic accidents by exploiting the variation in the availability of e-scooter services induced by the staggered rollout across 93 cities in six countries. Police-reported accidents in the average month increased by around 8.2% after...

Using data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System for the period 1983-1997, Cohen and Einav (Review of Economics and Statistics 2003; 85(4): 828 843) found that mandatory seatbelt laws were associated with a 4 to 6 percent reduction in traffic fatalities among motor vehicle occupants. After...

Current “safe enough” Autonomous Vehicle (AV) metrics focus on overall safety outcomes such as net losses across a deployed vehicle fleet using driving automation, compared to net losses assuming outcomes produced by human driven vehicles. While such metrics can provide an important report...

Road Traffic Accidents (RTAs) weigh down on household finances and economies. Literature suggests that low-middle income countries are the worst affected. This study appraises the monetary value of human life losses associated with RTAs in Namibia, focusing on persons below life expectancy age...

Traffic courts are deeply important, but we know almost nothing about what goes on inside them. There are at least three reasons to care. First, traffic courts resolve over half of all cases brought into our justice system each year. Understanding how traffic courts work is thus crucial for...

Previous studies of the effect of ridesharing on traffic fatalities have yielded inconsistent, often contradictory conclusions. In this paper we revisit this question using proprietary data from Uber measuring monthly rideshare activity at the Census tract level. Most previous studies are based...

One of the lesser-known categories of excess deaths of the COVID-19 pandemic in the US was that of fatal car crashes—road-death incidents went up despite the fact that driving decreased due to the lockdowns. Remarkably, then, while there was significantly less traffic in 2020 compared to...

We consider the optimal liability rule in the case of accidents by fully autonomous vehicles. We show that when due activity is not enforceable, it is socially optimal to apply the strict liability rule to the human operator who determines the activity level and to apply the negligence rule to...

Certain features of imported second-hand cars (e.g., age, degree of wear and tear, technical design) can increase their likelihood for traffic crashes. Three official datasets which cover an eight year period (2008–2015) are used to test the connection between importation of second-hand cars...

This paper extends work previously undertaken to map the actors involved in the road transport industry at a municipal level in the UK (Staton et al., 2022) and explores the decision-making of, and relationships between, key actors with regard to road safety intervention. Interviews were...

India continues to experience an ever-increasing number of motor accidents over the past few decades. The disputes that arise from motor accidents constitute a burden that a large section of the society in India cannot afford to carry. The settlement of such disputes through litigation has...