Changing times – A decade of empirical insight into the experience of rail passengers in Great Britain

Glenn Lyons, Juliet Jain and Iain Weir

Journal of Transport Geography, 2016, vol. 57, issue C, 94-104

Abstract: In the last decade the number of rail passenger journeys in Great Britain has increased by half and car trips per person are down by a tenth. Meanwhile there has been significant growth in internet use and ownership of smartphones. Travel patterns are changing in tandem with adoption of digital age innovations. At a time when Britain is also poised to invest tens of billions of pounds in high speed rail, this paper examines how the experience of rail passengers has changed from 2004 to 2014. It draws upon questions concerning travel time use designed by its first two authors that have been included in the National Rail Passenger Survey waves conducted in Autumn 2004, 2010 and 2014, yielding over 80,000 survey responses in total.

Keywords: Travel time use; Passenger rail; Mobile technologies; ICTs; Travel experience (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2016.10.003

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