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P A R T I Guide
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3 Identifying and Prioritizing Behavioral Interventions to Improve Child Passenger Safety in For-Hire Vehicles: Guide Behavioral Traffic Safety Cooperative Research Program (BTSCRP) Project BTS-11 was established to provide insight into the use of child restraint systems (CRS)
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4 Identifying and Prioritizing Behavioral Interventions to Improve Child Passenger Safety in For-Hire Vehicles • Introduce legislation to require for-hire companies to provide CRS in their vehicles or facilitate CRS use. In cases where advocacy and public-private partnerships are not possible, innovative new legislation that places more responsibility on rideshare and taxi companies for providing CRS for customers with children and/or facilitating their use could be an effective means for increasing use rates.
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5 Introduction Rideshare services provided by companies like Uber and Lyft have become much more popular over the last decade. In Q4 2021, Uber reported an average of 19.5 million trips a day worldwide (Uber Technologies, Inc., 2022)
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6 C H A P T E R 2 This chapter describes steps that can be taken to help ensure that the requirements for child restraint system (CRS) use in for-hire vehicles provide complete and consistent coverage.
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Strengthening CRS Requirements That Apply to For-Hire Vehicles 7 another city (Chicago, IL) , the law does not indicate any specific requirements or exceptions for rideshare vehicles or taxis.
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8 C H A P T E R 3 This chapter describes steps that can be taken to communicate with for-hire companies and request that they help address challenges associated with child restraint system (CRS) use in rideshare and taxi vehicles.
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Encouraging For-Hire Companies to Play a More Active Role in Ensuring Child Passenger Protection 9 • Could the office work with your company to provide training for correct installation of child seats for your drivers? • Would your company like to work with the office to establish a program that makes CRS more accessible to for-hire drivers?
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10 C H A P T E R 4 When efforts to engage rideshare and taxi companies through advocacy work are insufficient, state and local governments can seek to ensure access to child restraint systems (CRS) in rideshare and taxi vehicles by requiring companies to provide CRS to their drivers and/or reduce barriers to CRS use by facilitating quick access when drivers need a CRS.
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11 References Ehsani JP, Michael JP, Gielen A
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