Ride-sharing and Crime: Evidence from U.S. Cities

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Author(s)Usman Taj, Muhammad
Author(s)Kamble, Vikrant V.
Date Accessioned2025-11-24T20:42:27Z
Date Available2025-11-24T20:42:27Z
Publication Date2025-10-29
DescriptionThis article was originally published in Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives. The version of record is available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trip.2025.101707 © 2025 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ).
AbstractThis paper investigates the causal impact of ride-sharing services on crimes across major US cities using daily and monthly level crime data from the Crime Open Database. Employing a staggered difference-in-differences approach, we leverage the temporal variation in Uber and Lyft market entry to isolate their effects on criminal activity. Our analysis reveals a modest post-implementation decline in overall crimes, with more pronounced downward effects for motor vehicle theft, weapon law violations, vandalism, and DUI offenses, while assault and robbery rates show inconsistent patterns. We also find evidence that ride-sharing reduces crime during nighttime, in open spaces, and on weekends, underscoring the spatial and temporal variation in crime patterns. By highlighting these nuanced effects, our findings extend the existing literature, which has predominantly relied on lower-frequency FBI Uniform Crime Reporting data and narrower offense categories. To address methodological concerns, we utilize the Callaway and Sant’Anna estimator to correct for bias from negative weights in traditional models. Robustness checks confirm the stability of our findings.
CitationTaj, M. U., & Kamble, V. V. (2025). Ride-sharing and Crime: Evidence from U.S. Cities. Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 34, 101707. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trip.2025.101707
ISSN2590-1982
URLhttps://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/36764
Languageen_US
PublisherTransportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
KeywordsCrime
KeywordsLyft
KeywordsUber
TitleRide-sharing and Crime: Evidence from U.S. Cities
TypeArticle
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