Safe From Crime at Location-Specific Transit
PI: Anne Vernez Moudon (UW), moudon@uw.edu
Co PIs: Mark Hallenbeck (UW), Alon Bassok (UW)
AMOUNT & MATCH: $30,000 from PacTrans; $30,000 Match
PERFORMANCE PERIOD: 12/15/2016 – 1/31/2018
STATUS: Completed
CATEGORIES: Transit, Public Safety
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DESCRIPTION: Transit agencies address exposure to crime and related victimization by identifying two types of issues: the safety of riders, which involves reducing their exposure to crime on their way to, while waiting for, and while traveling in transit vehicles; and security, which involves cooperation with law enforcement to protect transit riders. Transit operators have long monitored crime and are cognizant of high incident locations. However, they lack data-driven tools to readily match crime events spatially with the locations of individual transit facilities, and temporally with transit service periods and their associated transit ridership characteristics (e.g., commuters, night riders, etc.). The proposed project builds on four datasets, which once integrated, will provide a state-of-the-art system for monitoring crime in both space and time, and developing and testing countermeasures for crime prevention.
| DELIVERABLE | DUE DATE | DATE RECEIVED |
| Research Project Progress Report #1 | April 10, 2017 | April 14, 2017 |
| Research Project Progress Report #2 | October 10, 2017 | October 11, 2017 |
| No Cost Extension Request | November 30, 2017 | November 22, 2017 |
| Draft Report | November 30,2017 | June 18, 2018 |
| Final Project Report | January 31, 2018 | August 20, 2018 |
