Faculty Research Interests
State Laws and Traffic Safety
Dr. Lilliard E. Richardson, Jr.Lilliard Richardson conducts research on how laws affect traffic safety, mainly in the American states with some work in the European Union. He has examined the effectiveness of seat belt laws, speed limits, child safety seat laws, drinking and driving regulations, and policies affecting large trucks. His research uses a variety of research methods, including web and mail surveys, pre- and post-test evaluations of programs, cross-sectional time series analysis, logistic regression, latent variable IRT analysis, and quantile regression.
Publications in this research area
| Enhancing Missouri Traffic Safety with a Primary Enforcement Seat Belt Law Date: 1/1/2005 Author(s): Lilliard Richardson Document: 1-2005 Enhancing Missouri Traffic Safety FINAL.pdf |
| Drinking and Driving in America: A Test of Behavioral Assumptions Underlying Public Policy Date: 1/1/2005 Author(s): David J. Houston, Lilliard Richardson Document: IPP 03-2005.pdf |
| Facts on Child Safety Seat Law and Missouri Date: 3/1/2004 Author(s): Lilliard Richardson Document: IPP 15-2004.pdf Report 15-2004 |
| The Effectiveness of Child Safety Seat Laws in the Fifty States Date: 3/1/2004 Author(s): Lilliard Richardson Document: IPP 18-2004.pdf Report 18-2004 |
| Traffic Safety and the Switch to Primary Seat Belt Law: The California expereince Date: 3/1/2004 Author(s): David J. Houston, Lilliard Richardson Document: IPP 19-2004.pdf Report 19-2004 |
| The Effectiveness of Child Passenger Protection Legislation in the States Date: 3/1/2004 Author(s): David J. Houston, Lilliard Richardson Document: IPP 20-2004.pdf Report 20-2004 |
| Legislating Traffic Safety: A Pooled Time Series Analysis Date: 3/1/2004 Author(s): David J. Houston, Lilliard Richardson, Grant W. Neeley Document: IPP 22-2004.pdf Report 22-2004 |
| The Politics of Air Bag Safety: A Competition among Problem Definitions Date: 3/1/2004 Author(s): David J. Houston, Lilliard Richardson Document: IPP 23-2004.pdf Report 23-2004 |
| State Regulations of Trucking: The Policy Impact of Differential Speed Limits Date: 5/1/2004 Author(s): Grant W. Neeley, Lilliard Richardson Document: IPP 39-2004.pdf Report 39-2004 |
| Traffic Safety Policy in the States: A Study of Occupant Injuries Sustained in Fatal Motor Vehicle Crashes, 1975-1991 Date: 3/1/2004 Author(s): David J. Houston, Lilliard Richardson, Grant W. Neeley Document: IPP 21-2004.pdf Report 21-2004 |
| Safety Implications of Changing to a Primary Enforcement Seat Belt Law Date: 4/1/2001 Author(s): Lilliard Richardson Document: IPP 01-2001.pdf Report 01-2001 |
| Legislating Traffic Safety Date: 11/30/2006 Author(s): Lilliard Richardson Document: 20-2006TrafficSafety.pdf IPP 20-2006 |
| Seat Belt Use by Missouri Teens Date: 2/22/2007 Author(s): Lilliard Richardson, Diana Gaughan, Shannon Daily Stokes, Nathaniel Albers Document: 1-2007 Teen Seat Belt Use Final.pdf |
| Attitudes Toward Seat Belt Use Among Urban & Rural Teens Date: 7/17/2007 Author(s): Jeremy Diener, Lilliard Richardson Document: 3-2007 Attitudes Toward Seat Belt Use Final.pdf |
| Seat Belt Use Among Rural & Urban Pickup Truck Drivers Date: 7/17/2007 Author(s): Jeremy Diener, Lilliard Richardson Document: 4-2007 Seal Belt Use Final.pdf |
| Drinking-Driving and Other Risk Behaviors Among Missouri High School Students, 1997-2005 Date: 7/28/2009 Author(s): Jiaqi Liang Document: 11-2009 DrinkingDriving.pdf |