Melanie Fernandez
- Loukaitou-Sideris, A., Liggett, R., Iseki, H., & Thurlow, W. (2001). Measuring the effects of built environment on bus stop crime. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 28(2), 255-280.
- We chose to study a sample of downtown intersections. Although all crimes recorded by the MTA Transit Police had occurred at bus stops, locations of crimes were recorded by street address or closest intersection. When there are multiple bus stops at an intersection, it is in many cases impossible to tell from the location recorded at which bus stop the crime occurred. We, therefore, decided to use the intersection as the unit of analysis and aggregate all bus stop crime within a 150-foot radius of an intersection.
- This was accomplished by using ArcView to count crime data for each intersection after geocoding the data by address and cross street. There are a total of 187 intersections with bus stops in the study area. Of these, seventy-three had no reported crime and another thirty-four reported two or fewer crimes. Twelve intersections reported over fifty crimes.
- Gallison, J. K., & Andresen, M. A. (2017). Crime and public transportation: A case study of Ottawa’s O-Train system. Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice, 59(1), 94-122.
- Neighboring residential homes and commercial businesses may become vulnerable to an increase in crime due to the opening of a transit route. Many studies have begun to recognize the need to examine nearby transit surroundings in relation to crime. Some studies have suggested that a transit station can generate crime up to 750 meters away. It is critical to examine the nearby land use of a major transportation route to fully understand the potential risks of crime occurring in surrounding neighborhoods.
- Budet, D., Castro, M., Jaworski, J., Khait, Y., Marte, F., & Washington, R. Data Mining Customer, and Employee-Related Subway Incidents.
- While cleansing the data, we discovered a few events that, though low in terms of frequency of occurrence, caught our attention due to their severity. The following incidents were classified within the ten class types but merit independent mention. As mentioned in the introduction, well over a billion passengers travel the NYC subway system over the course of a year. In this regard, the subway system is a microcosm of New York City.
- The results of the study show that given the number of riders traveling through the NYC Subway system on a daily basis, subway crime is not an excessive problem.
- Fullwood, M. (2018). Transit Advertising with Alcohol and Violent Content on Public Platforms: A Descriptive Study of Advertisements Within the New York City Subway System. Teachers College, Columbia University.
- The purpose of this study was to describe the prevalence of advertisements with alcohol and violent content in the New York City subway system. Both alcohol use and violence are major factors affecting youth development. Further, as noted above, the connection between alcohol use and violence has been well established. One study conducted in Boston represents the main study conducted to date.
- Adams, W., Herrmann, C. R., & Felson, M. (2015). Crime, transportation, and malignant mixes. Safety and security in transit environments: an interdisciplinary approach, 181-195.
- During the school year, there are 70,000 Bronx high school students, and it is likely they play an integral role in mid-afternoon robberies near Bronx subway stations, or. However, on non-school days, there is a considerably different and escalated nighttime robbery pattern occurring between 11 pm – 1 am. These violent hot spots also occur near transit stations, but here schools are not present. Instead, a different mix of facilities occurs around transit stations, as the hot spots are located near drinking establishments.
