Description

This study was conducted in accordance with California Senate Bill 1161 (2022), legislation that directed the Mineta Transportation Institute to develop a reliable, easy-to-use survey instrument for collecting information from public transit passengers about the extent, location, and characteristics of any street harassment they experience. Although the legislation is focused on large California transit agencies, the study findings are equally relevant to smaller agencies and agencies outside the state. To develop the recommended questionnaire, we reviewed literature about street harassment, analyzed transit passenger surveys to explore the questions asked about safety and harassment, received feedback on iterative drafts of the questionnaire from numerous transit riders and experts, and pilot-tested the survey with 329 bus and train riders. The recommended questionnaire is available on the MTI website in fourteen languages, including English, Spanish, and Chinese.

Publication Date

12-2023

Publication Type

Report

Topic

Transit and Passenger Rail, Planning and Policy

Digital Object Identifier

10.31979/mti.2023.2301

MTI Project

2301

Keywords

survey, harassment, public transportation

Disciplines

Transportation | Urban Studies and Planning

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2301-RB-Agrawal-Street-Harassment-California-Transit-Survey.pdf (657 kB)
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