Alcohol Impaired driving Research
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Funded by the Penn Injury Science Center
This study validates the test accuracy of commercially available personal alcohol breath testing devices that pair with smartphones against measurements from a police grade breath testing device and a blood alcohol content tests.
Funded by the National Center for Injury Control and Prevention and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
To understand the impact of crashes after big ridesharing companies, like Uber, were integrated into cities, we created a study using time-series analyses on 4 US cities. We assumed that Uber's presence would be associated with fewer alcohol-involved crashes. Though this is partially supported in the results, we found that there was no concomitant change in all injury crashes and relationships between ridesharing and motor vehicle crashes differ between cities over time and may depend on specific local characteristics.