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Injury Prevention

Economic impact on local businesses of road safety improvements in Seattle: implications for Vision Zero projects

Injury Prevention
Summary
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81% Informative

Few studies have documented the economic impact of Vision Zero road safety improvement projects.

We examined baseline and up to 3 years of postimprovement taxable sales data for retail, food and service-based businesses adjacent to seven road safety projects begun between 2006 and 2014 in Seattle .

We used hierarchical linear models to test whether the change in annual taxable sales differed between the 7 intervention sites and 18 nearby matched comparison sites.

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formal

Language

English

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77

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long-living

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