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This article investigates car-based commuting habits among employees in four knowledge intensive organizations (KIOs) in the greater Oslo region in Norway. This region has experienced a growth in KIOs and knowledge workers over the last few decades and, like many other European urban regions, it struggles with high levels of car-based commuting. Th...
Independent mobility has been proposed to be a precondition for leading an independent, non-institutionalized life. Supporting independent mobility for the growing senior segment thus has societal importance. The question of how to maintain well-being through mobility in older age is, however, a complex one. The present study explicates this by foc...
The benefits of walking are widely recognized. In this regard, the Norwegian government has urged local authorities to develop walking strategies. The aim of such strategies is to influence a local walking culture and framework conditions for pedestrians. Older citizens are an important focus group because what is an accessible environment for them...
Weekly working hours and commuting distance can be seen as indicators of equality/inequality between spouses. Traditionally, it is women who adjust their career more readily to meeting family obligations. In an era with a focus on equality between the genders in regard to both education and paid work, it is obvious to think of equality regarding wo...
Previous research has shown that mobility and the ability to leave the home are among the essential aspects of older people's quality of life. However, surveys of older people's access to transport resources and the impact of mobility on welfare and wellbeing are few. Many previous studies are based on small samples or qualitative data. The questio...
In countries with winter weather characterised by low temperatures, snowfall and icy roads and pavements, getting out of the home to carry out everyday activities can be a challenge for many older people in cities and beyond. Inadequate clearance of snow and poor gritting of pavements prevent people with even slightly reduced motion capacity from g...
Videoconferencing is a technology in transit, with innovative platforms providing new communications opportunities and forms of co-operation. Although research has been occupied with the videoconferencing−business travel relationship for some time, little attention has been given to the diversity of the technology and how new technological platform...
The conventional approach to the study of travel time is to see it as ‘dead time’, i.e. time that should be minimized. In this paper, we study time-use on trains, especially in relation to the use of information and communication technology for work purposes. The empirical results are based on a survey of rail travellers in Norway in 2008. It was f...
In this paper we explore how the use of new videoconference technologies (VCs) is affecting the communication and travel patterns of Norwegian business professionals. Based on a survey of 1411 business travellers, room-based videoconferencing systems are compared with Internet-based VC systems. The results indicate that not only do these systems ha...
Based on a quantitative survey of Norwegian business travelers, this study compares their use of face-to-face (FTF) meetings and videoconferences (VCs). The study finds that access and use of VCs are determined mainly by industry and the geographical structure of the enterprise. It also finds that VCs and FTF meetings differ along several dimension...
This paper explores business travellers attitudes to videoconferencing and how these affect on the use of this technology. Based on an analysis of 1411 Norwegian business travellers’ attitudes, we find four dominant set of attitudes toward the use of videoconferences and travels: Benefit oriented, Network development, Travel tiredness and Mobile co...
Mobiliteten eller rörligheten för äldre människor är fortfarande ett område under utveckling. Det visar en VTI-studie gällande Norge, Danmark och Sverige där man har studerat äldre personers resande med personbil, kollektivtrafik, cykel, gång och i viss mån även övriga transportmedel som definieras av motoriserade rullstolar, skotrar, mopedbilar, e...
In the Norwegian Travel Survey 2009, about 29 000 people from
13 years have been interviewed. The survey provides information
on travel frequency, trip purposes and travel mode, and on how
travel behaviour varies with age, gender, income, place of
residence etc. In 2009 the average citizen made 3.3 trips per
day. Most trips are short, 42 per cent b...
In the Scandinavian countries Denmark, Norway and Sweden, the proportion of older people in the total population is expected to reach about 25% in 2060. The ageing of the population has a variety of social implications. One aspect of population ageing that has relatively little attention in the Scandinavian countries is the question of everyday mob...
Increased use of the car in the everyday transport of children can lead to environmental problems, and cause increased obesity and decreased independence among children. Using a structural equation model we investigate the influence of a range of background variables on mode choice for Norwegian children’s transport to school or leisure activities....
The use of the Internet for information searching and purchasing of goods and services has rapidly increased. The development of e-shopping might have an impact on travel activity, but for the present the results from different studies are still inconclusive. In this paper the interaction between information searching, e-shopping, and travel activi...
With the rapidly increasing ease of access to the Internet in people’s homes, more and more of our everyday activities are being carried out online. While the home has become what might be called a communication hub, open to question is the impact this virtual mobility is having on our physical mobility. The questions we address in this article con...
Unlike school trips, the leisure activities of children and transport to these activities have received relatively little attention. Organized activities have increased and the immediate neighbourhood is not always the most appropriate or desirable area to play in or carry out various leisure activities. This paper presents findings from a nationwi...
The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationships between aspects of time norms, planning of everyday activities, use of a mobile phone, and the car in families with children. The analysis is based on results from a survey with a random sample of 2000 respondents from families with children in Norway, 2005. The analysis shows that the mobil...
The main objectives of this paper were to examine how much teleworking is carried out by employees in firms, the motives behind the practice and the relationship between the daily travel pattern and teleworking. The results derive from an Internet-based survey of 2700 persons who answered questions about their use of information and communication t...
Why is the level of teleworking still low when access to the relevant technology has increased so much in the past decade in the Scandinavian countries and in most other Western countries? This question is the point of departure for this paper. The paper presents results from two Norwegian studies of teleworking, one quantitative the other qualitat...
In this survey about children's physical environment, activities and daily travel about 1750 parents and children in the age group 6 - 12 years have answered questions about traffic and possibilities for playing in the nabourhood, traffic conditions on the way to school, and the school trip. Information is also given about traffic education, playin...
Why have central areas in Norwegian cities become more popular in recent years? There is an increasing demand for inner-city dwellings changing the social composition of the inhabitants from lower to higher status groups. This phenomenon, ‘gentrification’, seems to be an international trend. Gentrification has been explained in different ways. Main...
The development of “new” family structures, with an increasing portions of divorced parents choose joint custody of the children, and a differentiation and distribution of daily activities has opened the way for new and more flexible forms for information and communication technology (ICT) to coordinate the interaction between family members. The n...
This paper presents results from a pilot study to the Norwegian Personal Travel Survey 2001 designed to test the quality of geographical information in travel surveys. The use of travel surveys to produce input data for transport modelling requires respondents to provide adequate geographical information on their trips. Data from a telephone survey...
On the basis of the Norwegian national personal travel survey (NPTS) 1997/98 and a connected mail back survey of the use of information – and communication technology at home, the relation between mobility and use of stationary communication has been studied. On the basis of these results we cannot see any direct substitutionary effects of the use...
Time is a significant dimension of the everyday journey. The temporal aspects of a journey are both quantitative and qualitative. The perception of time has been related to different time order systems in various societies and to differences within the spheres of production and reproduction. In this paper the differences between men and women in at...
The question raised in this paper is in which ways the urban structure interacts with or creates different conditions for activities made by men and women. To explore this question the paper focuses on the travel to work of married couples in an urban context, how they adapt time use and deal with the spatial choices of work places and the allocati...
The question raised in this paper is in which ways the urban structure interacts with or creates different conditions for activities made by men and women. To explore this question the paper focuses on the travel to work of married couples in an urban context, how they adapt time use and deal with the spatial choices of work places and the allocati...
The generation of traffic as a consequence of the localisation of different services and functions in urban areas is an important factor in local land use and transport planning. In relation to planning for less road traffic without a reduction in the possibilities on different welfare arenas for the population, differences in preferences of reside...
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Earlier studies of men’s and women’s travel behaviour have shown significant differences both in use of transport mode and travel length. Men use the car more often than women, while women travel more by public transport and walk more often than men. Men also have longer trips in average than women. For instance research on the journeys to work sho...
