Abstract
This article reviews five decades of English and French literature on transit safety in several major databases, with the focus on Scopus and ScienceDirect. The review explores the nature and frequency of transit crime and passengers’ safety perceptions in transport nodes and along the trip using bibliometric analysis and a systematic review of the literature. The number of retrieved documents was 3137, and 245 were selected for in-depth analysis. Transit safety as a research area took off after the mid-1990s and peaked after the 2010s. The body of research is dominated by the English-language literature (mostly large cities), with a focus on the safety of rail-bound environments and examples of interventions to improve actual and perceived safety for public transportation (PT) users. Highlighting the importance of transit environments along the whole trip, the article also helps advocate for more inclusion of passengers’ safety needs and the involvement of multiple stakeholders in implementing PT policies.
Highlights
When we use public transportation (PT), we spend a part of our travel time waiting at transport nodes or walking on our way to them
In this article we collect and systematize scholarly knowledge on the topic covering five decades of studies, written in English primarily but extending to the French literature as a benchmark. This is not the first literature review on transit safety in English or in French (e.g., Bradet and Normandeau 1987; Crossonneau 2003; Noble 2015a, b), this article is the first that covers studies dealing with transit crime as well as safety perceptions of transit environments, providing: 1. A special focus on studies that deal with the transit environment
From 245 eligible publications that constitute the base for the analysis, 70% are articles and the remainder are reports, chapters, and conference papers; 77% are in English, and 23% in French
Summary
When we use public transportation (PT), we spend a part of our travel time waiting at transport nodes (train stations or bus stops) or walking on our way to them. One of the first reviews in this area was carried out by Smith and Clarke (2000), followed later by Smith and Cornish (2006), in the mid-2010s by Newton (2014), and more recently with a specific focus on gender issues by Ding et al (2020) None of these were systematic reviews (Higgins and Green 2011), nor did they incorporate studies devoted to safety interventions. In this article we collect and systematize scholarly knowledge on the topic covering five decades of studies, written in English primarily but extending to the French literature as a benchmark This is not the first literature review on transit safety in English or in French (e.g., Bradet and Normandeau 1987; Crossonneau 2003; Noble 2015a, b), this article is the first that covers studies dealing with transit crime (various types) as well as safety perceptions of transit environments, providing: 1. Crime and safety in transit environments: a systematic review of
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