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Title: ANALYSIS OF FEELING OF SECURITY ON PUBLIC TRANSIT AMONG RESIDENTS OF SMALL URBAN AREA
Accession Number: 00732430
Record Type: Component
Record URL: Availability: Find a library where document is available Abstract: Magnitude estimation for assessing personal security is introduced. Magnitude estimates were obtained and used to compute security indexes. The advantage of magnitude estimate-based indexes over summated scales is that they are ratio rather than ordinal data. Residents of Greensboro, North Carolina, were surveyed regarding crime in the vicinity of bus stops. Responses were analyzed, and violent crime around bus areas was rated 2.5 times more serious than nonviolent crime (e.g., panhandling). In a model of the index, the gender of residents, an interaction term denoting crime victimization and taking precautionary measures, and the crime rate were significant predictors; race and age were not.
Supplemental Notes: This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1557, Public Transportation 1996: Bus, Rural and Intercity, and Paratransit.
Language: English
Corporate Authors: Transportation Research Board 500 Fifth Street, NW Authors: Morse, L BBenjamin, J MPagination: p. 28-31
Publication Date: 1996
Serial: ISBN: 030905964X
Features: References
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TRT Terms: Uncontrolled Terms: Geographic Terms: Old TRIS Terms: Subject Areas: Highways; Public Transportation; Safety and Human Factors; Security and Emergencies; Society
Files: TRIS, TRB
Created Date: Feb 20 1997 12:00AM
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