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4 results foundAuthor: Currie, Graham Title: Perceptions and Realities of Personal Safety on Public Transport for Young People in Melbourne Summary: This paper aims to explore how perceptions of safety relate to actual experience in the context of urban public transport. It presents the results of an empirical analysis of links between perceptions of personal safety on public transport and compares these with actual experience of travellers. The focus of the work is a survey of young people using public transport in Melbourne Australia. The research literature demonstrates contrasting views with regard to perceptions of personal safety and actual risks. Positive links have been found in some contexts while others have found fears to be unrelated to risk. Some crime surveys and empirical studies suggest perceptions of personal safety are not justified by crime rates. However a series of surveys have shown that those with direct experience of safety incidents have greater concerns with safety. Other research suggests that feelings of anxiety and psychological factors act to make some people feel uncomfortable on public transport and that this acts to increase perceptions of poor personal safety. The paper aims to explore which factors are more important in explaining perceptions of safety. The analysis has identified a series of three statistically significant models which predict personal feelings of safety on public transport using different measures of safety perceptions. In each model psychological influences i.e. "feeling comfortable with people you don't know" had the biggest individual influence on perceptions of safety with a medium effect size. Gender and the actual experience of a personal safety incident were also found to influence perceptions of personal safety but these variables only had a small effect on perceptions of safety. The paper discusses policy and research implications of the findings including suggestions for future research. Details: Melbourne: Institute of Transport Studies, Monash University, 2010. 14p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed April 20, 2015 at: http://www.atrf.info/papers/2010/2010_currie_delbosc_mahmoud.pdf Year: 2010 Country: Australia URL: http://www.atrf.info/papers/2010/2010_currie_delbosc_mahmoud.pdf Shelf Number: 135304 Keywords: Public TransportTransit Crime Transportation Safety |
Author: Victoria (Australia). Auditor General Title: Public Safety on Victoria's Train System Summary: Public transport services, and in particular trains, play a significant role in the community. Passengers should feel safe as they use these services regardless of the time of day or night. The protective services officers (PSO) program was established to reduce crime and improve perceptions of safety on Melbourne's train system. Perceptions of the safety of the metropolitan train system at night have improved since the start of the PSO program, but the extent to which this can be attributed to the presence of PSOs is unknown. It is also not possible to assess whether PSOs have had any impact on crime on the metropolitan train system. Advice provided to government to support decisions on the establishment and deployment of the PSO program was comprehensive, however, performance monitoring has been limited. Victoria Police does not have an effective performance monitoring regime in place to support ongoing development or future advice on the program's efficiency or effectiveness. Additionally, there is an opportunity to drive greater awareness of the presence of PSOs, further improving perceptions of safety and increasing patronage. Details: Melbourne: Victorian Government Printer, 2016. 62p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed February 25, 2016 at: http://www.audit.vic.gov.au/publications/20160224-Public-Safety/20160224-Public-Safety.pdf Year: 2016 Country: Australia URL: http://www.audit.vic.gov.au/publications/20160224-Public-Safety/20160224-Public-Safety.pdf Shelf Number: 137972 Keywords: Public TransportTrainsTransit CrimeTransit SafetyTransportation Security |
Author: International Centre for the Prevention of Crime (ICPC) Title: Crime Prevention and Community Safety: Cities and the New Urban Agenda. 5th International Report Summary: The fifth edition of the International Report on Crime Prevention and Community Safety develops, from the urban perspective, various topics relevant to the current context in cities. As with previous editions of the Report, the first chapter is a constant of ICPC's International Reports, reviewing major trends in crime and in its prevention. The following two chapters address the relationship between the urban setting and the prevention of crime through two distinct lenses: the first gives a general overview of the issues and major trends facing cities; the second, in contrast, offers a comparative perspective, particularly in relation to national-local relationships in the Latin American context. The final three chapters address three fundamental topics on the prevention of urban crime: public transport, the prevention of drug-related crime, and the prevention of violent radicalization. Details: Ottawa: ICPC, 2016. 204p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed October 19, 2016 at: http://www.crime-prevention-intl.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Publications/International_Report/CIPC_5th-IR_EN_17oct_Final.pdf Year: 2016 Country: International URL: http://www.crime-prevention-intl.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Publications/International_Report/CIPC_5th-IR_EN_17oct_Final.pdf Shelf Number: 145994 Keywords: Crime PreventionDrug-Related ViolenceExtremist GroupsPublic TransportRadical GroupsRadicalizationUrban Areas and Crime |
Author: Nishijima, Marislei Title: Public Transport Expansion and Crime - A Case Study of the Core of Sao Paulo Metropolitan Region Summary: The paper examines the impact of new public transport on selected crime indices in the core of the Sao Paulo Metropolitan Region (SPMR). Given the possible endogeneity of public transport to determine crime, we exploit the historical 1968 plan of public transport expansion as a possible IV for actual public transport expansion in SPMR sub-districts over 2000-16. This is because SPMR sub-districts that received new transport connections in our samples were very similar in all relevant ways to those that did not, but were included in the plan. Also the reasons for sub-districts that were planned to get public transport, but did not get it, were related to local resistance and problems of land acquisitions, but unrelated to crime, thus justifying the exogeneity of the IV. Results suggest that public transport expansion had significantly lowered homicide rates though it was accompanied by a significant increase in property crimes in the treated sub-districts in the full sample. Further, there is evidence that the homicide reducing effects of public transport expansion were most pronounced for expansion of metro (as opposed to bus) lines and in this case there was no increase in property crime rates. We show that these effects can be attributed to increasing gentrification of the treated districts receiving new public transport, as reflected in increases in share of households paying much higher house rents and that of share of educated employed people and drop in share of households living in favelas as well as local arrests and also that these gentrification effects were stronger for sub-districts that received costlier metro (rather than bus) connections. Details: Sao Paulo, Brazil: University of Sao Paulo, 2019. 33p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed May 30, 2019 at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332207493_Public_Transport_Expansion_and_Crime_-_A_Case_Study_of_the_Core_of_Sao_Paulo_Metropolitan_Region Year: 2019 Country: Brazil URL: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3310401 Shelf Number: 156088 Keywords: Brazil Gentrification Homicide Rates Homicide Reduction Metro Public Transport |