Transit Safety for a Sustainable City: People, Paths and Places in Railway Stations (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783031974267)

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.