Quality of Life and Daily Travel

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Quality of Life and Daily Travel: An Introduction

      • Lars E. Olsson, Margareta Friman, Dick Ettema

      Pages 3-13

3. Conceptualizations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15

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   2. Travel Satisfaction and Well-Being

      • Patricia L. Mokhtarian, Ram M. Pendyala

      Pages 17-39

   3. Travel and Feelings

      • Tommy Gärling

      Pages 41-56

   4. Accessibility and Exclusion Related to Well Being

      • Alexa Delbosc, Graham Currie

      Pages 57-69

4. Case-Study Applications

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 71-71

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   2. Commuting and Happiness: What Ways Feel Best for What Kinds of People?

      • Sascha Lancée, Martijn Burger, Ruut Veenhoven

      Pages 73-93

   3. Dynamic Modeling of Activity Happiness: An Investigation of the Intra-activity Hedonic Treadmill

      • Isabel Viegas de Lima, Maya Abou-Zeid, Ronny Kutadinata, Zahra Navidi, Stephan Winter, Fang Zhao et al.

      Pages 95-118

   4. Measuring Door-to-Door Journey Travel Satisfaction with a Mobile Phone App

      • Yusak O. Susilo, Fotis K. Liotopoulos

      Pages 119-138

   5. Satisfaction with Leisure Trips: Findings from Ghent, Belgium

      • Jonas De Vos

      Pages 139-155

   6. Examining the Relationship Between Commuting and it’s Impact on Overall Life Satisfaction

      • Lesley Fordham, Dea van Lierop, Ahmed El-Geneidy

      Pages 157-181

   7. A Case Study Exploring Associations of Quality of Life Measures with Car and Active Transport Commute Modes in Sydney

      • Nicholas Petrunoff, Melanie Crane, Chris Rissel

      Pages 183-198

   8. Transport and Child Well-Being: Case Study of Quebec City

      • E. Owen D. Waygood

      Pages 199-218

   9. Daily Monitoring of Mobility as an Indicator of Wellbeing Among Individuals with Chronic Disease

      • Amit Birenboim, A. Yair Grinberger, Enrico M. Novelli, Charles R. Jonassaint

      Pages 219-234

   10. Mobility in Later Life and Wellbeing

       • Charles Musselwhite

       Pages 235-251

5. The Future

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 253-253

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   2. Travel and Wellbeing: Future Prospects

      • Margareta Friman, Dick Ettema, Lars E. Olsson

      Pages 255-265

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.

• Every-Daily Travel and Quality of Life
• Travel Satisfaction
• Commuting and Happiness
• Travelling and Well-Being
• Travel Mode Choice
• Travel and Emotions
• The Experience of Public Transport
• Mobility in Later Life and Well-Being
• Children´s Travel and Well-Being
• Walking and Well-Being
• Cyclists´ Satisfaction in Canada
• Travel to Work and Stress in Australia
• Commuters Well-Being and E-bike
• Chronic Disease and Well-Being
• Future Prospects of Travel and Well-Being

• CTF Service Research Center, Department of Social and Psychological Studies, Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden

  Margareta Friman, Lars E. Olsson

• Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

  Dick Ettema

Margareta Friman is Professor of Psychology at Karlstad University (Sweden). She is Associated Editor of the Frontiers in Psychology, Environmental Psychology (2016-present). In 2014, she received the Håkan Frisinger Foundation for Transportation Research Award as a prominent researcher. Margareta Friman has authored and co-authored close to 100 book chapters, articles, and technical reports primarily in the areas of consumer satisfaction, service quality in public transport, soft transport policy measures and travel behavior, and consumer emotions. Her articles have been published in international journals in psychology, economics, and transportation. 

Dick Ettema graduated from Eindhoven University of Technology with a Ph.D. in architecture, building and planning. After working both in academia and consulting, he is now Associate Professor of Human Geography at Utrecht University. Dick Ettema has co-edited one book and has published about 100 articles, bookchapters and technical reports in the area of activity and time use analyses, accessibility analysis, longer-term mobility decisions and well-being implications of travel. His articles have been published in journals in transportation and urban planning. He is member of the Committee on Travel behaviour and Values of the US Transportation Research Board, co-chairman of the World Conference of Transportation Research Special Interest Group on Travel and ICT, and member of the editorial boards of Journal of Choice Modelling and Journal of Transport and Land Use. 

Lars E. Olsson graduated from Göteborg University with a Ph.D. in Psychology of decision making. After a position as researcher at the Center for Consumer Research at the School of Business, Economics, and Law in Gothenburg, he was in 2009 recruited to the Service and Market Oriented Transport Research Group (SAMOT). He is now Associate Professor of Psychology at Karlstad University. Lars E. Olsson has published research in the areas of sustainability, environmental behavior, consumer experiences, travel behavior and well-being. His articles have been published in international journals in psychology, environmental studies, economics, and transportation.

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