Quality of Life and Daily Travel
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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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xii Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Quality of Life and Daily Travel: An Introduction (Lars E. Olsson, Margareta Friman, Dick Ettema)....Pages 3-13 Front Matter ....Pages 15-15 Travel Satisfaction and Well-Being (Patricia L. Mokhtarian, Ram M. Pendyala)....Pages 17-39 Travel and Feelings (Tommy Gärling)....Pages 41-56 Accessibility and Exclusion Related to Well Being (Alexa Delbosc, Graham Currie)....Pages 57-69 Front Matter ....Pages 71-71 Commuting and Happiness: What Ways Feel Best for What Kinds of People? (Sascha Lancée, Martijn Burger, Ruut Veenhoven)....Pages 73-93 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 Measuring Door-to-Door Journey Travel Satisfaction with a Mobile Phone App (Yusak O. Susilo, Fotis K. Liotopoulos)....Pages 119-138 Satisfaction with Leisure Trips: Findings from Ghent, Belgium (Jonas De Vos)....Pages 139-155 Examining the Relationship Between Commuting and it’s Impact on Overall Life Satisfaction (Lesley Fordham, Dea van Lierop, Ahmed El-Geneidy)....Pages 157-181 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 Transport and Child Well-Being: Case Study of Quebec City (E. Owen D. Waygood)....Pages 199-218 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 Mobility in Later Life and Wellbeing (Charles Musselwhite)....Pages 235-251 Front Matter ....Pages 253-253 Travel and Wellbeing: Future Prospects (Margareta Friman, Dick Ettema, Lars E. Olsson)....Pages 255-265
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