A EUROPEAN STUDY OF COMMUTING AND ITS CONSEQUENCES

The report evaluates the travel demand of an industrial society and presents a review of research in this field within the member states of the European Economic Community. The study considers the effects of commuting on human behaviour but does not include the design of, or the investment in, transport infrastructure. Patterns of travel to work are examined and also the connections between travel, home and workplace which vary according to physical and spatial factors, level of economic development, treds and policies in land use, and transport and cultural differences in social organisation. The report is divided into four parts. Part A provides a background to the study while Part B considers the relationship between commuting and other aspects of daily life for the traveller and for society as a whole. Part C makes a detailed and technical analysis of the processes that produce particular forms of travel behaviour by examining the role of particular transport and spatial variables. Part D uses the main themes emerging from the report to discuss the implications for the study of living and working conditions. Areas for future research are identified.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • See also no. 382839, section 41, UMTRIS Bulletin 8401.
• Corporate Authors:

  European Foundation Improvement of Liv & Work Cond

  Loughlinstown House
  Shankill, Dublin,   Ireland 
• Authors:
  • Pickup, L
  • Town, S W
• Publication Date: 1983

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: 210 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: City planning; Communities; Commuting; Public transit; Socioeconomic factors; Sociology; Transportation policy; Travel patterns; Travel time; Urban development
• Geographic Terms: Europe; United States
• Old TRIS Terms: National transportation policies
• ITRD Terms: 6471: Analysis (math); 285: Demand (econ); 263: Economics of transport; 8303: EU; 8034: Europe; 9020: Evaluation (assessment); 698: Journey; 697: Journey time; 621: Journey to work; 6488: Length; 612: Peak hour; 173: Policy; 744: Public transport; 2253: Sociology; 1155: Transport
• Subject Areas: Economics; Policy; Public Transportation; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00387684
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 30 1984 12:00AM