"Research described in a new article published in the Journal of Public Transportation, “A New..."

“Research described in a new article published in the Journal of Public Transportation, “A New Transit Safety Narrative,” indicates that increased transit travel and more transit-oriented development can provide significant traffic safety and crime reduction benefits. These benefits are potentially large, but generally overlooked by safety experts and transit advocates. Transit travel has less than a tenth the crash casualty rate as automobile travel, and transit-oriented development residents experience less than a fifth of the traffic casualty rate, per capita, as automobile-oriented communities. In addition, per capita crime rates tend to be lower in more compact, mixed, transit-oriented neighborhoods, and all else being equal, tend to be lower in more transit-oriented cities than in automobile-dependent cities. This research supports Jane Jacob’s hypothesis that more compact, mixed development tends to reduce crime by increasing passive surveillance (“eyes on the street”) by responsible (non-criminal) people who live, work, and walk in an area.”



- Public Transit Increases Safety, Reduces Crime | Planetizen: The Urban Planning, Design, and Development Network (via othemts)



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