01082106

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http://www.trb.org/Publications/Blurbs/159420.aspx

This paper summarizes what is currently known about relationships between outlet densities and two problems related to traffic safety: motor vehicle crashes and pedestrian injury collisions. Much of the work that has been done in this area has been from a transdisciplinary perspective. For that reason, the multiple disciplinary approaches to understanding the relationships of alcohol outlets to traffic safety are emphasized. Theoretical and empirical research from these perspectives is reviewed. The paper concludes with a theoretical integration of these different perspectives that emphasizes the agent-based nature of drinking and driving, drunken driving and motor vehicle crashes; drinkers acting as agents who drive after drinking in the context of dynamically changing social constraints. It is argued that these constraints act to ensure the persistence of drinking and driving and drunken driving within communities. Modifications of these constraints may also be used to reduce these alcohol problems.

01082101

English

pp 109-119

2007-11

Transportation Research Circular

Traffic Safety and Alcohol Regulation

Web

References

Alcoholic beverages; Crashes; Drinking establishments; Drunk driving; Location; Pedestrian vehicle crashes; Traffic safety

Multidisciplinary research; Off-premise establishments; Outlet density; Outlets

Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor

TRIS, TRB

Nov 29 2007 9:25AM

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