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Public Transit and Women’s Safety – Real and Perceived Concerns: A Look at the U.S. and Florida
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2020-06-01
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Edition:Final Report
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Abstract:This study examines issues of women’s safety and security on public transit. The first section of the report provides background information and synthesizes recent literature on the topic of women’s security not only when using (or working in) public transit, but while traveling in any public space. The second section of the report analyzes transit security data reported to the National Transit Database (NTD) from 2013 to 2017 on personal security events (assaults, robberies, rapes, larceny/theft, homicides, and suicides) by gender and person type (passenger, operator, other worker, persons waiting or leaving the transit area, etc.) for the U.S. and Florida. Personal security events are a relatively rare occurrence on public transit in the U.S., with only 5,862 incidents from 2013 to 2017 that resulted in 5,751 injuries and 432 fatalities. During this time, there were more than 47.6 billion passenger trips taken on U.S. transit systems. For Florida transit systems during this time period, there were only 51 personal security events resulting in 43 injuries and 7 fatalities over more than 1.3 billion passenger trips. The third section of this report includes case study discussions with three transit agencies in Florida: one larger agency (Palm Tran in Palm Beach County) and two mid-sized agencies (VOTRAN in Volusia County—Daytona Beach area and Lee Tran in Lee County—Fort Myers area). These discussions provided insight into the agencies’ awareness of gender-based harassment and the types of initiatives that are being implemented to address the safety and security of all passengers and workers.
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