Full Description
This volume analyses the relevance of daily travel in the quality of life of individuals. It provides a broad understanding of the links between life satisfaction, well-being and travel, the importance of commuting, and different evaluations and measures to assess the experience of commuting and quality of life. Chapters in this book relate travel and quality of life to the built environment, accessibility and exclusion, travel mode choice, travel satisfaction and emotions. It brings together distinguished researchers from a variety of academic backgrounds providing conceptualizations and applications, presented as case studies, for daily travel and well-being. Findings presented in this book are highly relevant for transport planners, transport marketers, public transport authorities, and environmental professionals in the pursuit of improving people's life.
Contents
Part I. Introduction.- Ch 1. Commuting and Happiness: What Way Feels Best for What Kinds of People?; Sascha Lancée, Martijn Burger and Ruut Veenhoven.- Ch. 2. Travel and Quality of Life; Tim Schwanen.- Part II. Conceptualizations.- Ch. 3. Built Environment, Travel and Quality of Life; Lawrence D. Frank.- Ch. 4. Accessibility and Exclusion Related to Well-Being; Graham Currie.- Ch. 5. Travel Mode Choice and Well-Being; Moshe Ben-Akiva.- Ch.6. Travel Satisfaction and Well-Being; Patricia L. Mokhtarian.- Ch. 7. Travel and Emotions; Tommy Gärling.- Part III. Case-Study Applications.- Ch. 8. Public Transport Experiences: The Mobility Collector; Yusak Susilo.- Ch. 9. Mobility in Later Life and Well-Being: The Case of Norfolk; Charles Musselwhite.- Ch. 10. Children's Travel and Well-Being in Quebec City; Owen Waygood.- Ch. 11: Mobility, Chronic Disease and Well-Being; Amit Birenboim.- Ch. 12. Walking and Well-Being: ASelf Help Intervention in the City of Glasgow; Nanette Mutrie.- Ch. 13. Cyclists' Satisfaction in Canada; Ahmed El-Geneidy.- Ch. 14. Travel to Work by Car or Active Modes: A Case Study of Self-Reported Stress in Sydney; Chris Rissel.- Ch. 15. Does a Shift from Car to E-bike increase Commuters' Well-Being?; Joost de Kruijf, Dick Ettem and Martin Dijst.- Part V. The Future.- Ch. 16. Travel and Well-Being: Future Prospects; Margareta Friman, Lars E. Olsson and Dick Ettema.
