Tompson, L;
Partridge, H;
Shepherd, N;
(2009)
Hot Routes: Developing a New Technique for the Spatial Analysis of Crime.
Crime Mapping: A Journal of Research and Practice
, 1
(1)
pp. 77-96.
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Abstract
The use of hotspot mapping techniques such as KDE to represent the geographical spread of linear events can be problematic. Network-constrained data (for example transport-related crime) require a different approach to visualize concentration. We propose a methodology called Hot Routes, which measures the risk distribution of crime along a linear network by calculating the rate of crimes per section of road. This method has been designed for everyday crime analysts, and requires only a Geographical Information System (GIS), and suitable data to calculate. A demonstration is provided using crime data collected from London bus routes.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Hot Routes: Developing a New Technique for the Spatial Analysis of Crime |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | http://www.cjresearch.com/CMJ/purchase.html |
| Additional information: | Reproduced with kind permission of the Editor of Crime Mapping: A Journal of Research and Practice |
| Keywords: | mapping, linear, network, rate, hotspot, transport |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Security and Crime Science |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/20057 |
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