TY - JOUR PY - 2011// TI - More or less travel: personal mobility trends in the Swedish population focusing gender and cohort JO - Journal of transport geography A1 - Frändberg, Lotta A1 - Vilhelmson, Bertil SP - 1235 EP - 1244 VL - 19 IS - 6 N2 - This study explores mainstream trends and countertrends in the development of spatial mobility in the Swedish population. Tracing incipient change in travel behaviour is important for understanding the preconditions for social and environmental sustainability. We use data from the Swedish national travel surveys, conducted intermittently over almost 30 years (1978-2006), covering both daily and long-distance mobility. International travel is included for the last decade. With respect to mainstream trends, the results primarily concern the continuation of the spatial extension of overall mobility and of the motorization and individualization of travel modes, as well as an upward convergence between women's and men's mobility. When it comes to countertrends, substantial reductions in daily mobility and long-distance domestic travel are observed among the young.

LA - SN - 0966-6923 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2011.06.004 ID - ref1 ER -