Motorcycle Ban and Traffic Safety: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment at Zhejiang, China

Table 1

Different provinces’ regulations concerning motorcycles on freeways.

Province	Regulations
	Year	Name	Details and severity
Guangdong	1989	Interim Measures on Expressway Traffic Management of Guangdong Province	Do not clearly ban motorcycles on freeways in the documents, but make statements about the lowest designed maximum speed of the vehicles that are forbidden on freeways; the limitation varies across provinces	60 km per hour
Hebei	1991	Administrative Measures on Expressways of Hebei Province (for Trial Implementation)		70 km per hour
Yunnan	1998	Measures on Traffic Management of High-Grade Highways of Yunnan Province		50 km per hour
Anhui	2004	Regulations on Expressway Management of Anhui Province		70 km per hour
Guizhou	2007	Regulations on Road Traffic Safety of Guizhou Province		60 km per hour
Heilongjiang	2018	Regulations on Expressway Management of Heilongjiang Province		70 km per hour
Shandong	2000	Regulations on Expressways of Shandong Province	Make clear statement that motorcycles are prohibited on freeways
Fujian	2003	Regulations on Expressway Management of Fujian Province
Qinghai	2003	Measures for the Administration of High-Grade Highways in Qinghai Province
Shanxi	2003	Interim Measures on Expressway Management of Shanxi Province
Henan	2004	Regulations on Expressways of Henan Province
Jiangxi	2009	Measures on the Implementation of the Law of “The People’s Republic of China on Road Traffic Safety” in Jiangxi Province
Ningxia	2013	Regulations on Road Traffic Safety of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region
Jiangsu	2014	Regulations on Expressways of Jiangsu Province
Chongqing	2015	Regulations on Highway Management of Chongqing Municipality
Shanghai	2016	Regulations on the Administration of Road Traffic of Shanghai Municipality
Hainan	2017	Measures for Traffic Safety Management of Expressways in Hainan Province
Zhejiang	2005	Measures for Operation and Management of Expressways in Zhejiang Province	Not only ban motorcycles on freeways, but also on expressways
Sichuan	2015	Regulations on Expressways of Sichuan Province