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My new paper Pedestrian Deaths and Large Vehicles was published in #Economics of #Transportation. I estimate the role of increasingly large vehicles on #pedestrian deaths in the US over the past 20 years. doi.org/10.1016/j.ecot… 
US drivers have hit and killed over 100,000 pedestrians since 2000. The rate of pedestrian deaths has been increasing recently, even as driver/passenger deaths have fallen.
At the same time, the average weight of a vehicle involved in a crash has gone up by about 200 kg. Light trucks (#SUVs/#pickuptrucks/minivans) have also become more common relative to cars, SUVs as a share of vehicles rose by ~60%.
