Moving Safely

A sustainable city enables the fulfillment of the mobility needs of their citizens via accessible, reliable, and safe transportation systems. Safety is one of many factors influencing the mobility of individuals in urban environment. Moving Safely: Crime and Perceived Safety in Stockholms Subway Stations is about safety at transportation nodes. More specially, safety at subway stations using Stockholm transportation system as a case study. If ones assess safety by the levels of crime events and perceived safety on these premises, how safe are they? This book searches for answers to this question in their environmental attributes, their physical features but particularly in the social interactions that take place in these transit-settings. The aim of the book is to provide both theoretical and empirical perspectives on safety conditions at subway stations. The book adopts an approach that is place-centered, looking upon those who travel through the network system, and may sometimes, become a victim of crime. The book offers suggestions on how to plan safety at subway stations with a variety of passenger preferences, needs and resources. Although these suggestions are not the first ones in the literature, certainly they are new in terms of relying on findings from hypothesis testing and spatial data from a Scandinavian city. The suggestions take into account the need for a whole journey approach to safety (door-to-door), both from the perspective of those who are responsible for the supply side of services delivery and from those who use the system. Safety in transportation nodes is not a field for one science only, it demands integrated and cross-disciplinary theories, as well as methods that are capable of guiding (and dealing with) an ever-increasing volume of data. This constitutes the new frontier of research in urban safety as well as of planning practices. The book combines principles of traditional theories of urban criminology, crime science, architecture, geography, transportation, urban planning and gender. The book is relevant for experts in safety and transportation research, such as criminologists, planners, transportation engineers, architects as well as professionals dealing directly with safety interventions.