Transit safety among college students: An international study

The aim of the study is to characterize the dynamics of transit crime, in particular sexual harassment and violence, from the perspective of those who are most targeted by these offences, namely young people. Focus is given to the relationship between safety and the types of environments that individuals are exposed to when they travel by transit. The book focuses on women but also adopts a more holistic approach by considering the intersectionality of safety of young adults as transit passengers; it presents examples from a variety of cities worldwide, giving voices to young people from several countries in the Global North and the Global South.

This was an international study based on answers from around 15000 college/university students in 18 cities in 6 continents. The execution of the project covered about 18 months, starting in early 2018 and finishing by mid 2019.

Results available here

Coordinators (International Project)

Vania Ceccato , Professor, Department of Urban Planning and the Built Environment, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris , Professor of Urban Planning; Associate Provost for Academic Planning, UCLA, USA

Case studies
The survey was composed of 50 questions translated into the local language. Case studies had to meet the following criteria:

Have a minimum sample of at least 300 university students per city. While most researchers were able to reach, and in many cases far exceed this sample size, in a couple of cities researchers were only able to collect smaller samples.
All researchers had to agree to use the same survey questions to allow comparability of results, with the exception of cases where the use of a particular question was not allowed in one country or by the Ethics Committee.
All researchers had to follow a pre-determined time schedule.

Read more about the research making here: thebscblog.wordpress.com/2020/03/

Results of this comparative framework are summarized in the book Transit Crime and Sexual Violence in Cities: International Evidence and Prevention , giving basis to the discussion of commonalities and differences in sexual violence among college studies in different parts of the world.

Cities	Country	Continent	Research coord	Contact
Bogota	Colombia	Americas	Monica Perez	m.perez@uniandes.edu.co
Guangzhou	China	Asia	Dengkai Huang	arhdk@hotmail.com
	Sweden	Europe	Catherine Sundling	catherine.sundling@sh.se
Lagos	Nigeria	Africa	Smart Otu	smartotu@yahoo.com
Lisbon	Portugal	Europe	Perdro Gouveia	pedro.gouveia@cm-lisboa.pt
London	England	Europe	Reka Solymosi, Andrew Newton	reka.solymosi@manchester.ac.uk
Los Angeles	USA	Americas	Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris	sideris@g.ucla.edu
Manilla	The Philipines	Asia	Derlie Mateo-Babiano	imateo@unimelb.edu.au
Melbourne	Australia	Oceania	Carolyn Whitzman	cwhitzma@uottawa.ca
Mexico city	Mexico	Americas	Javier Romero Torres	jromero@uaemex.mx
Milan	Italy	Europe	Serena Fararin	Serena.Favarin@unicatt.it
Paris	France	Europe	Hudo de Jubainville	hugo.darboisdejubainville@gmail.com
Rio Claro	Brazil	Americas	Silvio Govone, Farid Nourani	jsgovone@gmail.com; farid.nourani@unesp.br
San Jose	USA	Americas	Asha Weinstein Agrawal	asha.weinstein.agrawal@sjsu.edu
Sao Paulo	Brazil	Americas	Paula Santoro	paulafsantoro@gmail.com
Stockholm	Sweden	Europe	Vania Ceccato	vania.ceccato@abe.kth.se
Tokyo	Japan	Asia	Seiji Shibata	contact@sbtseiji.net
Vancouver	Canada	Americas	Jordana Galisson	jkg5@sfu.ca