Women 10% more likely than men to report feeling unsafe on city public transport

A worldwide study of 327,403 metro and bus passengers found that women are ten per cent more likely to feel unsafe than men on urban public transport. The study, conducted by Imperial College London on data from 2009 to 2018, looked at a third of a million passenger responses to Customer Satisfaction Surveys (CSSs) from 28 cities across four continents. It found that on average, women are ten per cent more likely than men to report feeling unsafe on metro trains (trains that go underground) and six per cent more likely than men to report feeling unsafe on buses. "Our research exposes a gap in passenger safety levels that's often overlooked. We hope that by putting a figure on feelings of safety, urban metro and bus companies can take measures to boost women's feelings of safety and reduce the gap between genders. Laila Ait Bihi Ouali Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering The largest difference between women and men's perceptions of safety was in Europe, where women were 12 per cent more likely to report feeling unsafe than men. The smallest difference was in South America, where women were nine per cent more likely to report feeling unsafe than men.