@article{ref1,
title="The impact of drivers' short-term exposure to air pollution on traffic deaths",
journal="Environmental science and pollution research international",
year="2022",
author="Shi, Daqian and Liu, Ziwei and Fu, Jie and Yu, Hongwei",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="Air pollution may decrease drivers' driving performance thus leading to traffic accidents, but this impact is almost ignored in existing literature. We investigate the short-term effect of air pollution on traffic deaths using the high-dimensional fixed effect model and instrument variable method based on the daily-city panel data in China from 2013 to 2018. The results show that drivers' short-term exposure to air pollution significantly increases the number of traffic deaths. For every 1 ug/m(3) increase of PM2.5 concentration each day, the daily number of traffic deaths will increase by 0.64%. The impacts of air pollution on traffic deaths can last for 2 days. We also find that impact varies from different driver groups.The male, the young (age under 22), the elderly (age over 60), and the two-wheeler drivers are more vulnerable. Worse air pollution may associate with more bad driving behaviors and less good manners. In this article, we reveal a new factor that leads to traffic deaths, i.e., air pollution, and we also put forward some prevention strategies which may provide policy references for traffic safety.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0944-1344",
doi="10.1007/s11356-022-20230-0",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-20230-0"
}