Transit Safety for a Sustainable City

Vania Ceccato is a professor at the Department of Urban Planning and Environment, School of Architecture and the Built Environment, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. She is the head of the UCS—Urban & Community Safety Research Group and the coordinator of the Safeplaces network. She is interested in the relationship between the environment and safety. Her research is primarily on the geography of crime and fear in urban and rural environments; transit safety, the intersectionality of safety and safety governance. She is the author/editor of several books on transit safety and related subjects (Safety on the move, 2013; Safety and Security in Transit Environments, 2015; and Transit Crime and Sexual Violence in Cities: International Evidence and Prevention, 2020; Crime and fear in public places: Towards safe, inclusive and sustainable cities, 2020; Systems Thinking for Sustainable Crime Prevention: Planning for Risky Places, 2024); Crime, people and places: Perspectives on rural safety and justice, 2025).Catherine Sundling is a researcher and lecturer at the Department of Psychology, Södertörn University in Huddinge, Sweden, and a registered psychologist. Her research area is environmental psychology; especially perceived accessibility, safety, and walkability in urban environments. Gabriel Gliori is a research engineer at the Department of Urban Planning and Environment, School of Architecture and the Built Environment, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. He is part of the UCS—Urban & Community Safety Research Group and a member of the Safeplaces network. His research focuses on the relationship between the built and social environment and safety and security, especially in public transport as well as in rural contexts.

• Foreword.- Chapter 1 - Stations in cities: An introduction.- Chapter 2 - Safety in stations: Theory and practices.- Chapter 3 - Making stations safer: A conceptual framework.- Chapter 4 – Study area and research design.- Chapter 5 - Crime in and around the station.- Chapter 6 – Temporal variations of safety perceptions at and on the way to the stations.- PART II - Cross-sectional perspectives.- Chapter 7 - The role of the design and environment of the stations.- Chapter 8 - Mapping Safety: Understanding crime and socio-economic contexts surrounding train stations.- Chapter 9 – Safe havens or isolated spots? Crime and safety in rural train stations.- Chapter 10 – Safety from the perspective of users: Women and LGBQTI’s perspective of the station.- Chapter 11 – When travel makes you sick! Women’s asthma and allergy experiences on trains.- Chapter 12 -  Inclusive transit: Accommodating disabilities in train travel.- Chapter 13 - Place managers and the organisation of public transportation hubs: Sweden, UK.- PART III – The governance of stations in the city.- Chapter 14 – Making stations inclusive and safer.- Chapter 15 – Planning for new stations in the city.- Chapter 16 - Recommendations for research and practice.- Appendices.