Modelling Pedestrian Movement to Measure On-Street Crime Risk

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Author(s): Spencer Chainey (UCL Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science, UK)and Jake Desyllas (Intelligent Space Partnership, UK)
Copyright: 2010
Pages: 21
Source title: Movement-Aware Applications for Sustainable Mobility: Technologies and Approaches
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Monica Wachowicz (Wageningen University of Research Centre for Geo-Information, The Netherlands)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-769-5.ch015

Keywords: Computer Science & IT / Information Science Reference / Mobile and Wireless Computing / Sensor Technologies

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This chapter presents results for the first large-scale analysis of street crime rates that utilizes accurate on-street pedestrian population estimates. Pedestrian counts were generated at the street segment level for an area in central London (UK) using a modeling process that utilized key indicators of pedestrian movement and sample observations. Geocoded street crime positioned on street segments then allowed for street crime rates to be calculated for the entire central London study area’s street network. These street crime rate measures were then compared against street crime volume patterns (e.g., hotspot maps of street crime density) and street crime rate statistics and maps that were generated from using the residential population as the denominator. The research demonstrates the utility of pedestrian modeling for generating better and more realistic measures for street crime rates, suggesting that if the residential population is used as a denominator for local level street crime analysis it may only misinform and mislead the interpretation and understanding of on- to pedestrians. The research also highlights the importance of crime rate analysis for understanding and explaining crime patterns, and suggests that with accurate analysis of crime rates, policing, and crime prevention initiatives can be improved.

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