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Title:

Individual, Travel, and Bus Stop Characteristics Influencing Travelers’ Safety Perceptions

Accession Number:

01665713

Record Type:

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Order URL: http://worldcat.org/issn/03611981

Abstract:

Ensuring safety during door-to-door public transport trips is a fundamental challenge to service providers, as safety influences individuals’ mobility. Using reported safety perceptions of travelers waiting at six bus stops with different characteristics in Stockholm, this study investigates factors that have an impact on determining travelers’ perceived safety and crime perceptions. This is done by assessing the importance of real-time information provision and the environmental characteristics of bus stops during the day and at night for different types of crime, after controlling for travelers’ individual and trip characteristics, and their previous experiences of victimization. Interaction effects of age, gender, and travel frequency are also tested. The results suggest that bus shelter characteristics, natural surveillance, and trustworthy real-time information are the most important factors influencing safety and crime perceptions. Additionally, safety perceptions are strongly influenced by previous experiences of victimization. The effect of perceived feelings about crime and safety are found to be nuanced by age and gender. Unlike some common beliefs, travelers: (1) feel less worried about becoming a victim of crime at bus stops associated with high crime rates; (2) prefer opaque shelters at night; and (3) have higher safety perceptions when the stop is located in an area of mixed land use. The impact of a bus stop’s number of passers-by is found to be insignificant. No direct or indirect effects can be attributed to frequency of travel by bus, indicating that familiar places and routine behavior have no effect on declared crime and safety perceptions.

Report/Paper Numbers:

18-05252

Language:

English

Authors:

Abenoza, Roberto F
Ceccato, Vania
Susilo, Yusak O
Cats, Oded

Pagination:

pp 19-28

Publication Date:

2018-12

Serial:

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board

Volume: 2672
Issue Number: 8
Publisher: Sage Publications, Incorporated
ISSN: 0361-1981
EISSN: 2169-4052
Serial URL: http://journals.sagepub.com/home/trr

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

References (34) ; Tables

Geographic Terms:

Stockholm (Sweden)

Subject Areas:

Public Transportation; Safety and Human Factors

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Dec 22 2017 10:39AM