Residing in a Driver Training Desert leads to Delayed Licensure: Investigating the Relationship between Accessibility to Driver Training and Young Driver’s Licensure
Xiaoxia Dong,
Jasmine Siyu Wu,
Elizabeth A. Walshe
et al.
Abstract:It remains unclear whether teens living in neighborhoods with lower socioeconomic status and poorer access to driver training (i.e., Driver Training Deserts) have lower probabilities of taking training (DT) and securing a young driver’s license. Using a teen driver dataset in the Columbus, OH MSA, we found teens residing in DTDs have on average 25% lower probabilities of DT and licensure than teens in non-DTDs. There is spatial clustering of the probabilities of DT and licensure. Our findings are helping to in… Show more
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