Os efeitos da Operação Direção Segura sobre a mortalidade no trânsito terrestre dos municípios de São Paulo

Resumo

The significant growth of the vehicle fleet in Brazil in the last decades and the consequent increase of traffic and the number of accidents in the cities and highways of the country motivated the reformulation of the national traffic legislation, highlighting the strengthening of rules and punishments to individuals who combine driving motor vehicles with intake of alcoholic beverages. In this context, Operação Direção Segura (ODS) was created in the State of São Paulo, which consists of large supervision operations of the popularly known Dry Law (instituted by Law 11.705 of June 19, 2008), carried out by a group of public entities. The objective of this research is to evaluate the impacts of ODS on the mortality in the land traffic of the municipalities of São Paulo. In order to show the relationship between ODS and traffic mortality, a difference-in-difference estimator with fixed effects was implemented, using as a dependent variable the number of traffic deaths in the municipalities and other control variables, that will seek to capture different characteristics of the regions which may affect the evolution of the deaths’ number in traffic. The identification strategy is based on the action of the ODS's regional superintendencies in a specific group of municipalities, where supervision in the field of operations is relatively higher (what means that these municipalities make up the treatment group). The results show that the ODS has a negative impact on the number of land traffic deaths, both from the point of view of the number of operations and from the point of view of the number of vehicles inspected. Thus, the effectiveness of reducing the mortality in traffic is a strong argument for the investment of the State Government of São Paulo in the expansion of this supervision program under the Dry Law.

Ficha do documento

Tipo

Dissertação

Ano

2017

Instituição

Fundação Getulio Vargas

Fonte

Repositório da FGV

Idioma

Português

Acesso

Não informado

Identificador

oai:repositorio.fgv.br:10438/19435

Temas

EconomiaDesenvolvimento RegionalGestão Municipal

Palavras-chave

Dry lawState of São PauloDeaths in land trafficPanelFixed effects estimatorLei secaOperação Direção SeguraEstado de São PauloMortes no trânsito terrestrePainelEconomiaTrânsito - LegislaçãoTrânsito urbano - São Paulo (Estado)Segurança de trânsito