Football Game-Day Traffic Fatalities

GAME-DAY TRAFFIC FATALITIES When the local football team is playing at home vs when it is away ĮSEATTLE 2001 - 2010(11) regular season games |MINNESOTA ĮGREEN BAY INEW ENGLAND BUFFALO DETROIT CHICAGO, PHILADELPHIA |CLEVELAND DENVER INDIANAPOLIS PITTSBURGH |KANSAS CITY |CINCINNATI IST. LOUIS TENNESSEE |CAROLINA SAN DIEGO JARIZONA DALLAS JATLANTA |JACKSONVILLE NEW ORLEANS HOUSTON CREATED BY John Nelson | uxblog.idvsolutions.com | @JohnNelsonIDV Josh Stevens | joshuastevens.net | @jscarto IDV Solutions | www.idvsolutions.com | @IDVSolutions SOURCES Traffic Fatalities | National Highway Traffic Safety Admin: FARS Historic Football Schedules | pro-football-reference.com Drive-Time Areas | Visual Fusion Server Road Network Map Reference | Natural Earth TAMPA BAY MIAMI 2001 - 2010(11) regular season 2001 - 2010(11) regular season 2001 - 2010(11) regular season ALL LOCAL GAME-DAY FATALITIES WHEN TEAM IS HOME ALL LOCAL GAME-DAY FATALITIES WHEN TEAM IS AWAY LOCAL HOME & AWAY % 50 45 40 35 30 25 20 15 10 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 50% 100% 72.3% DALLAS* 27.7% CINCINNATI 33.3% TAMPA BAY 66.7% CLEVELAND DENVER NEW ENGLAND TAMPA BAY TENNESSEE PHILADELPHIA* O0 0 0 O O 46.0% CHICAGO 54.0% 37.2% PHILADELPHIA* 62.8% O0 0 0 O O 52.8% ATLANTA 47.2% 43.8% MIAMI 46.7% OO 0 0 O O 53.3% HOUSTON* 67.9% 32.1% NEW ENGLAND 67.9% MINNESOTA O 00 0 0 O00O 34.6% TENNESSEE 65.4% PITTSBURGH O 00 0 0 O 60.9% DETROIT* 39.1% MIAMI 000 0 0 000 0 42.9% PITTSBURGH 57.1% CHICAGO O00 0 0 O0 0 40.0% MINNESOTA 60.0% ST. LOUIS O0 0 0 O O0 50.0% ST. LOUIS INDIANAPOLIS 50.0% O0 0 0 O O 63.2% ARIZONA* 36.8% BUFFALO 000 0 0 O 84.2% SEATTLE* 15.8% ATLANTA O00 0 O 27.8% DENVER 72.2% NEW ORLEANS 0000000 O 52.9% NEW ORLEANS 47.1% HOUSTON* 000000 00 50.0% INDIANAPOLIS CAROLINA 50.0% O00 0 O O0 53.8% CAROLINA 46.2% KANSAS CITY 00000 55.6% KANSAS CITY 44.4% DETROIT* 000 0 0 0 66.7% SAN DIEGO ARIZONA* 33.3% 0000 00 0O 88.9% JACKSONVILLE 11.1% SAN DIEGO 0.0% CINCINNATI 100.0% GREEN BAY DALLAS* SEATTLE* 0.0% CLEVELAND 100.0% O00 0 66.7% GREEN BAY 33.3% 50.0% BUFFALO 50.0% JACKSONVILLE Is the difference at this location significant? There is no significant overall difference. However, when considering the proportions of home and away game-day fatalities at individual locations, A/B significance tests of the two independent proportions flagged some locations as being noteworthy. Generally, though, these local rates should be taken anecdotally and this map serves only to promote the discussion of a very complex topic. What is "local?" What about stadium moves? Where are the other locations? Areas of equal drive-time represent 1-hour (non-traffic) drivability zones around each stadium, based on underlying OpenStreetMap road network. Drive-time is an equitable way of generating a set of comparable areas for a question so inherently tied to a road network. Rendered by Visual Fusion. Because several stadiums have overlapping local areas, crashes occurring on a home game-day or away game-day get mixed up over time. Therefore, the following locations could not be considered: BALTIMORE & WASHINGTON, NEW YORK & NEW YORK, The following venue changes, and thus the area considered "local," were addressed. Other venue changes in this time period were geographically negligible. DALLAS: Texas Stadium 2001 - 2008; AT&T Stadium 2009 - 2011 DETROIT: Pontiac Silverdome 2001; Ford Field 2002 - 2011 PHILADELPHIA: Veterans Stadium 2001 - 2002; Lincoln Financial Field 2003 - 2011 ARIZONA: Sun Devil Stadium 2001 - 2005; University of Phoenix Stadium 2006 - 2011 % Significant difference between proportions, 99% confidence. % 95% confidence. HOUSTON: Inaugural season 2002 SEATTLE: Husky Stadium 2001; CenturyLink Field 2002 - 2011 OAKLAND & SAN FRANCISCO Fewer local home game-day fatalities Fewer local away game-day fatalities