R000238497 - Changing Patterns of Everyday Mobility
Overview
Background & policy context:
Everyday mobility encompasses journeys to work and for education; trips for shopping, to meet friends and for a wide range of leisure activities. Common sense suggests that that the frequencies of such trips, and the distances travelled, have increased over the twentieth century. However, increased home-based entertainment, on-line shopping and concerns about safety may restrict mobility for some people. Theoretical studies, relating to the impacts of modernity, post-modernity and globalisation suggest ways in which changes may have occurred. However, there has been no research exploring how and why changes in everyday mobility have evolved over the twentieth century.
Objectives:
The objective of this project is to examine the way that everyday mobility has changed during the twentieth century.
Methodology:
A combination of quantitative and qualitative methods. Four cohorts of respondents in Manchester/Salford and Lancaster/Morecambe were identified and interviewed in depth about their everyday mobility patterns at specific points in their lives. The research was based on detailed questionnaires and in-depth life history interviews with 156 respondents in four age categories, ranging from 10/11 to 60 years of age. In all, the researchers collected 160 hours of taped interviews and data on over 895,000 individual trips.
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