In this research with Nick Caros, we studied the effects of violent crime on active transportation modes like walking and biking in NYC and found that an increase in crime has a much greater impact on bike ridership than it does on walking, but the sensitivity of the former is still several times less than to collision rate. The work was partially supported by the C2SMART UTC.
Paper available here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214367X18302060
A team formed from BUILT members, including Ziyi Ma, Gyugeun Yoon, Brian Yueshuai He, and Jinkai Zhou, participated in and won the first Microtransit Hackathon organized by IATR and the Transportation Alliance, with sponsorship from Curb. The team will go on to receive their award and present the work at Mobilize 2019, the annual convention and expo of The Transportation Alliance, to be held at Bally’s in Las Vegas on Oct. 16-19, 2019.
The news release from Tandon can be found here: https://engineering.nyu.edu/news/nyu-built-lab-team-wins-microtransit-hack-thon