Transit safety among college students: An international study

This was an international study based on answers from around 15000 college/university students in 18 cities in 6 continents. The execution of the project covered about 18 months, starting in early 2018 and finishing by mid 2019.

Results available here

Coordinators (International Project)

• Vania Ceccato , Professor, Department of Urban Planning and the Built Environment, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
• Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris , Professor of Urban Planning; Associate Provost for Academic Planning, UCLA, USA

Case studies
The survey was composed of 50 questions translated into the local language. Case studies had to meet the following criteria:

• Have a minimum sample of at least 300 university students per city. While most researchers were able to reach, and in many cases far exceed this sample size, in a couple of cities researchers were only able to collect smaller samples.
• All researchers had to agree to use the same survey questions to allow comparability of results, with the exception of cases where the use of a particular question was not allowed in one country or by the Ethics Committee.
• All researchers had to follow a pre-determined time schedule.

Read more about the research making here: thebscblog.wordpress.com/2020/03/

Results of this comparative framework are summarized in the book Transit Crime and Sexual Violence in Cities: International Evidence and Prevention , giving basis to the discussion of commonalities and differences in sexual violence among college studies in different parts of the world.