1. Impact of public bus system on spatial burglary patterns in a Chinese urban context
- Author
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Kai Liu, Lin Liu, Suhong Zhou, Chao Jiang, and Fangye Du
- Subjects
geography.geographical_feature_category ,media_common.quotation_subject ,05 social sciences ,Geography, Planning and Development ,0211 other engineering and technologies ,Negative binomial distribution ,021107 urban & regional planning ,Forestry ,Context (language use) ,Regression analysis ,02 engineering and technology ,Geography ,Urban planning ,Peninsula ,Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management ,Service (economics) ,Statistics ,050501 criminology ,Spatial variability ,Spatial dependence ,0505 law ,General Environmental Science ,media_common - Abstract
Purpose To examine the impact of public bus system on spatial burglary pattern in a Chinese urban context, as well as the spatial variation of this impact. Methods Local Moran's I, boxplot-based classification, geo-visualization, Chi-square test, and correlation analysis are used to explore the spatial coupling relationships between bus stops and burglary. Guided by routine activity approach, negative binomial regressions are performed for the developed and developing parts of the DP peninsula, as well as the whole peninsula based on proxies of potential offenders, guardians, targets, and spatial dependence. Results Statistically positive correlations are observed between burglary count and bus stop service capability. However, net of other factors, one more unidirectional bus route is expected to reduce burglary by nearly 2 percent for the whole area, and 4 percent for the developed area, while no statistically significant relationship is found for the developing area. Conclusions The bus-burglary relationships differ between the developed and developing urban areas. For the former, although burglaries concentrate around bus stops with higher service capability, the increase of bus service capability has a net impact of slightly depressing the occurrence of burglaries. Four possible mechanisms explaining this negative bus-burglary relationship in the DP peninsula are presented.
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- 2017