Outputs (3)

The gift of travel time (2008)
Journal Article
Jain, J., & Lyons, G. (2008). The gift of travel time. Journal of Transport Geography, 16(2), 81-89. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2007.05.001

The interpretation of travel time in economic terms has played a fundamental part in shaping our transport systems. The time consumed in order to travel to a destination has been seen as the price paid for fulfilling the purpose of reaching that dest... Read More about The gift of travel time.

A human perspective on the daily commute: Costs, benefits and trade-offs (2008)
Journal Article
Lyons, G., & Chatterjee, K. (2008). A human perspective on the daily commute: Costs, benefits and trade-offs. Transport Reviews, 28(2), 181-198. https://doi.org/10.1080/01441640701559484

The average worker in Britain spends 139 h/year commuting - the equivalent of 19 standard working days. While the average distance and time taken for journeys to work has been steadily increasing, the average number of journeys has been decreasing at... Read More about A human perspective on the daily commute: Costs, benefits and trade-offs.

Understanding Business Travel Time and Its Place in the Working Day (2008)
Journal Article
Holley, D., Jain, J., & Lyons, G. (2008). Understanding Business Travel Time and Its Place in the Working Day. Time and Society, 17(1), 27-46. https://doi.org/10.1177/0961463X07086308

This article argues that there is a need to understand business travel time in the context of the wider organization of work time. It considers why travel time use is potentially changing with the use of mobile technologies by the increasing number o... Read More about Understanding Business Travel Time and Its Place in the Working Day.