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Towards a Latin America free of casualties due to lack of road safety: The case of Brazil. "An analysis of road casualties in Brazil focusing on road traffic conditions and road ac...
Resende, Paulo; Diez-Roux, Esteban; Mendoza, Sissi … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
years of data from 25,000 km of highways in Brazil. It identifies the main causes of traffic accidents, which are road user … behavior and lack of road safety education. It also compares the severity and occurrence of accidents in Brazil on roads in … socios que promueven la necesidad de reducir falta de seguridad vial en Brasil, además de alinearse a los objetivos de la …
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Road safety: Challenges and opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean
Martinez, Sebastian; Sanchez, Raul; Yañez-Pagans, Patricia - In: Latin American Economic Review 28 (2019) 1, pp. 1-30
evidence of interventions to improve road safety outcomes, concentrating on three core areas: safer roads and mobility, safer …
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Road safety : challenges and opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean
Martinez, Sebastian; Sanchez, Raul; Yañez-Pagans, Patricia - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 28 (2019), pp. 1-30
evidence of interventions to improve road safety outcomes, concentrating on three core areas: safer roads and mobility, safer …
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Decarbonizing Light-Duty Vehicles
Stein, Amy L.; Fershee, Joshua P. - 2021
To reduce the United States’ greenhouse gas emissions by at least 80% from 1990 levels by 2050 will require multiple legal pathways for changing its transportation fuel sources. The Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project (DDPP) authors characterize the transformation required of the...
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Hands on the wheel, eyes on the phone : the effect of smart phone usage on road safety
Brands, Devi; Klingen, Joris; Ostermeijer, Francis - 2020
We provide novel evidence on the effect of smart phone use on road accidents. We exploit variation in phone usage fees in the Netherlands following a change in European Union (EU) roaming regulations implemented in 2017. The growth rate of mobile data roaming increased substantially after the...
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New estimates of the value of a statistical life using air bag regulations as a quasi-experiment
Rohlfs, Chris; Sullivan, Ryan; Kniesner, Thomas J. - 2012
Due to Federal regulations, automobile air bag availability was a model-specific discontinuous function of model year for used vehicles in the 1990s and early 2000s. We use these discontinuities and the gradual increase in the supply of air bags to trace out the demand curve for air bags and the...
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Lowering blood alcohol content levels to save lives: The european experience
Albalate, Daniel - Xarxa de Referència en Economia Aplicada (XREAP) - 2006
Road safety has become an increasing concern in developed countries due to the significant amount of mortal victims and the economic losses derived. Only in 2005 these losses rose to 200.000 million euros, a significant amount - approximately the 2% of its GDP- that easily justifies any public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005357421
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Lowering blood alcohol content levels to save lives, the european experience
Albalate, Daniel - Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Barcelona - 2006
Road safety has become an increasing concern in developed countries due to the significant amount of mortal victims and the economic losses derived. Only in 2005 these losses rose to 200.000 million euros, a significant amount – approximately the 2% of its GDP- that easily justifies any public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004971439
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Lowering blood alcohol content levels to save lives: A European case study
Albalate, Daniel - Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Barcelona - 2007
Road safety has become an increasing concern in developed countries due to the significant amount of fatalities and the associated economic losses. Only in 2005 these losses rose to 200,000 million euros, a considerable sum approximately 2% of GDP that easily justifies any public intervention....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005120747
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Forma urbana e mobilidade sustentável: Evidências de cidades brasileiras
Pereira, Rafael Henrique Moraes; Parga, João Pedro … - 2022
impacts their urban mobility energy consumption. First, we present a descriptive analysis of how urban areas in Brazil have … mobility patterns. However, most of these studies present empirical analysis without considering a theoretical understanding … regarding the causal paths between urban form and mobility patterns. Moreover, this literature focuses mostly on cities in the …
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