Ridesharing and Alcohol-Related Assaults in NYC: A Spatial Ecological Case-Crossover Study

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• Alternative Title:
  Drug Alcohol Depend
• Personal Author:
  Mehranbod, Christina A. ; Gobaud, Ariana N. ; Morrison, Christopher N.
• Description:
  Objective:
  
  Ridesharing has changed urban transportation and the distribution of some health outcomes, including alcohol consumption. Studies relating ridesharing to crime and violence at low space-time resolution (e.g., county-months) find mixed results. The aim of this study was to examine whether ridesharing was associated with increased incidence of alcohol-related assaults within highly resolved space-time units.
  
  Methods:
  
  This spatial ecological case-crossover study used rideshare and taxi trip data from the New York City (NYC) Taxi and Limousine Commission for 2017-2018 and assault data from the NYC Police Department, aggregated within taxi zone-hours. Conditional logistic regression models estimated the odds of observing an assault for case taxi zone-hours in which an assault occurred compared to two control units of the same taxi zone-hour one week before (−168 hours) and one week after (+168 hours) relative to the number of rideshare trips. Separate analyses assessed assaults occurring at bars and restaurants.
  
  Results:
  
  From 2017 to 2018, there were 47,124 nighttime assaults in the 262 taxi zones. There were 2,482 taxi zone-hours at a bar and 693 taxi zone-hours at a restaurant that contained at least one nighttime assault. Ridesharing was positively associated with nighttime assaults at bars (OR: 1.050; 95% CI: 1.002 to 1.100) but not at restaurants (OR: 1.049; 95% CI: 0.943 to 1.168).
  
  Conclusions:
  
  Additional ridesharing trips are associated with increased incidence of assaults at on-premise alcohol outlets in NYC at the precise hour and taxi zone of trip origins.
  
  
• Keywords:
  Alcohol Drinking Assaults Automobiles Crime Crime Victims Cross-Over Studies Humans New York City Ridesharing Spatial Epidemiology
• Source:
  Drug Alcohol Depend. 232:109321
• Pubmed ID:
  35074695
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC8885919
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  K01 AA026327/AA/NIAAA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; R01 AA029112/AA/NIAAA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; R49 CE003094/CE/NCIPC CDC HHSUnited States/ ; R49CE003094/ACL/ACL HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  232
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:c13e84dd921177357fd549a259f31eefb1bdf49035d1757af414910eb80e39d1
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/115077/cdc_115077_DS1.pdf
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