The book is intended as a useful reference for students and law enforcement professionals and as a practical guide for transit managers and planners who need to incorporate safety and security design into a mass transit system. The first section of the book discusses the foundations for creating a systematic approach to safety and security. The initial chapter establishes the community orientation needed for creating a stakeholder-vested transit system. From that foundation, an examination of information management and planning completes the discussion of elementary components of creating a total system. The next section divides mass transit into its basic components of buses, light rail, and fixed locations/station. Each component requires consideration of unique or specialized issues. The last section addresses specific topics of concern, such as terrorism, youths, gangs, mentally ill, homeless, and other pertinent areas of interest to both transit policing and system management. Chapter references, a subject index, and appended customer security survey, transit laws, and the tri-met security system plan and program