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This paper summarizes the findings of a study on crime, vandalism, and passenger security on urban transit systems. The study's major goals were to appraise the national scope of transit crime and vandalism and to explore means of controlling the problems and make suggestions on the basis of the research findings. The emphasis in this summary is on means of controlling the problems. Several ideas to control transit crime and vandalism are discussed: the use of materials that are specially fashioned to withstand criminal and vandal acts on transit; procedures and tactics to protect transit passengers, employees, and properties and ways to detect and deter offenders, keep them under surveillance, and apprehend them when necessary; mechanical and electronic devices, as well as features of stationary sites, for assisting police and security forces in their duties; programs for involving the community in formulating anticrime and vandalism measures and programs for maintaining a liaison with educational authorities and personnel; the methodical cultivation of good relations with police, courts, and the media; and the attitudes of the public toward transit crime and vandalism to ascertain whether fear of crime and vandalism influences passenger decisions to use urban transit. Suggestions for further research on transit crime, vandalism, and passenger security are also given.

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1974

Transportation Research Record

53rd Annual Meeting of the Highway Research Board

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Control; Crimes; Passenger security; Passengers; Prevention; Rapid transit; Safety; Security; Transportation safety; Urban transportation; Vandalism

Passenger safety

Administration and Management; Highways; Passenger Transportation; Public Transportation; Railroads; Safety and Human Factors; Security and Emergencies

TRIS, TRB

Aug 28 1981 12:00AM

• CRIME IN RAPID TRANSIT SYSTEMS: AN ANALYSIS AND A RECOMMENDED SECURITY AND SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM
• PERSONAL SECURITY IN BUSES AND ITS EFFECTS ON RIDERSHIP IN MILWAUKEE
• SCOPE OF CRIME AND VANDALISM ON URBAN TRANSIT SYSTEMS
• STUDIES OF PUBLIC ATTITUDES TOWARD TRANSIT CRIME AND VANDALISM