Disparities in Access to Driver Education for Teens as a Health and Mobility Equity Issue

Ryerson, Megan S; Dong, Xiaoxia; Wu, Jasmine Siyu; Walshe, Elizabeth A; Winston, Flaura K.; Carnegie Mellon University. Traffic21 Institute. Safety21 University Transportation Center (UTC)

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Disparities in Access to Driver Education for Teens as a Health and Mobility Equity Issue

2024-08-01
By Ryerson, Megan S ; Dong, Xiaoxia ; Wu, Jasmine Siyu ; ...

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Ryerson, Megan S ; Dong, Xiaoxia ; Wu, Jasmine Siyu ; Walshe, Elizabeth A ; Winston, Flaura K.

Ryerson, Megan S ; Dong, Xiaoxia ; Wu, Jasmine Siyu ; Walshe, Elizabeth A ; Winston, Flaura K. Less -
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Carnegie Mellon University. Traffic21 Institute. Safety21 University Transportation Center (UTC)
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United States. Department of Transportation. University Transportation Centers (UTC) Program ; United States. Department of Transportation. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

United States. Department of Transportation. University Transportation Centers (UTC) Program ; United States. Department of Transportation. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology Less -
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Access Driver Education Driver Licensing Equity (Justice) Health Income Mobility Teenage Drivers
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Tech Report
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Pennsylvania ; United States

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Final Report
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Stearns, Amy
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Carnegie Mellon University. Traffic21 Institute. Safety21 University Transportation Center (UTC)
Abstract:

Teens who complete behind-the-wheel (BTW) driver education (DE) are able to secure early licensure and are less likely to crash in their early years as a motorist. Disparities in accessibility to BTW DE are therefore disparities in health outcomes (crashes) and mobility (i.e., ability to secure early licensure). The following research grant is to support a stream of research focused on disparities in access to BTW DE, and therefore, safe driving skills and early licensure, for teens. Using inferential statistics and non-parametric statistical techniques, the team will identify economic, racial, and spatial disparities in accessibility to BTW DE by correlating individual data with propensity to engage in DE (Aim 1). The research team will further investigate the disparities in the acquisition of specific safe driving skills by linking individual data with VDA results (Aim 2). As disparities in accessibility to BTW DE are disparities in health outcomes and mobility, the team's research will uncover an actionable way forward to directly address healthy and mobility equity. The research team has assembled a completely novel database of over 18,000 Ohio teens, which includes the following individual-level data: state licensing data, crash data, and DE completion data; household-level data matched with transportation urban planning-related open data; and results from the Virtual Driving Assessment (VDA), a virtual driving skills measurement test the researchers' broader team at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia administers to learner drivers.
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69A3552344811
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University Transportation Centers
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