Sexual harassment and other forms of sexual violence in public spaces are aneveryday occurrence for women and girls around the world....It happens onstreets, in and around public transportation, schools and workplaces, in publicsanitation facilities, parks.... This reality reduces women’s and girls’ freedomof movement. It reduces their ability to participate in school, work and publiclife. Although violence in the private domain is now widely recognized as ahuman rights violation, violence against women and girls, especially sexualharassment in public spaces, remains a largely neglected issue (UN Women2017).This special issue brings together eight articles that characterise women’svictimisation and safety in transit environments. Why a special issue devoted towomen’s transit safety? Victimisation in transit environments is gendered (Ceccato2013; Loukaitou-Sideris2004; Peters2013; Smith2008). Although men are moreoften crime victims on public transport than are women (Morgan and Smith2006),women declare being more fearful than men (Ceccato2013; Dyme ́n and Ceccato2012; Loukaitou-Sideris2015, 2016). Differences between male and femalevictimisation patterns are important because they may help crime preventionspecialists determine the types of measures that are most appropriate for preventingparticular crimes (Smith2008).