This preliminary survey was exploratory, and there is a clear need to develop a comprehensive survey to administer to many more women in different Indian cities. There is also a clear need to initiate gender-based planning to integrate crime-prevention design into transportation planning. One area that comes to mind is the design of buses. The doorways of buses are narrow, but passengers routinely alight and board at the same time (Figure 4). Restricting movement—i.e., by passengers first alighting and then boarding—would reduce deliberate "brushing past."
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