[sustran] Re: Personal Security and Urban Transportation: Readings,

litman at Islandnet.com litman at Islandnet.com
Sat Aug 19 01:24:26 JST 2006


See the "Address Security Concerns" chapter of our Online TDM Encyclopedia (http://www.vtpi.org/tdm/tdm37.htm ), which contains information on strategies for improving percieved personal securty.

An interesting detail is various research indicating that people are overall significnatly safer living in urban areas and riding public transit than living in suburbs and driving, because the incremental increase in homocide risk in cities is far offset by increased traffic deaths in suburbs, at least in North America. 

See:
William Lucy, Danger in Exurbia: Outer Suburbs More Dangerous Than Cities, University of Virginia (www.virginia.edu), April 2002; available at http://arch.virginia.edu/exurbia/death-in-exurbia.pdf .

Todd Litman and Steven Fitzroy, "Safe Travels," Victoria Transport Policy Institute (http://www.vtpi.org/safetrav.pdf ), 2006.


Best wishes,
-Todd Litman

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> Readings,Evidence, Other
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> > Dear all,
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> > Does anyone have any/know of any references, empirical evidence, or
> > other relevant readings on the inter-relationships between crime,
> > perceived safety, public security more generally and urban travel
> > behavior and urban transportation?  References specific to the
> > developing world context would be especially interesting.
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> > Chris Zegras
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