Search results for "Fear of crime"

Public transportation and fear of crime at BRT Systems: Approaching to the case of Barranquilla (Colombia) through integrated choice and latent varia…

2021

Abstract Security perception and Fear of Crime (FoC) in urban scenarios have the potential to affect travel behavior, changing people’s travel choices and patterns. In this sense, the feeling of being “safe” or “at-risk” in public transportation not only depends on observable factors like illumination, travel companionship or transport crowding, but also on unobservable individual-specific latent attributes, among which fear of crime constitutes a major issue to consider in transport security policy-making. This study aimed to describe the relationships among sociodemographic features, travel situations, system-design features, and the Fear of Crime at three different locations (buses, bus …

Reducing the fear of crime in a community as a complex service system: The case of London Borough of Sutton

2012

Dynamic Perception Map of Urban Area for Social Surveillance

2015

We propose to develop a new social platform for surveil- lance purposes whose main goal is to reduce the citizens’ fear of crime while helping them to make sense of their fears through interactions with the other members of the social surveillance network. Dynamic perception maps will be estimated by the social surveillance system in order to measure the sense of safety of the citizens. These maps will be useful to increase citizens awareness of their surroundings, and highlight “hot area” to make more enjoyable in the urban area.