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Travel to work in Britain: a selective review
The main findings from the review and the survey data include: (a)An increase in the use of cars as the principal mode of travel to work and a corresponding decline in the use of public transport. (b) An increase in average length for the work-journey at the annual rate of 1 percent between 1921 and 1966. (c) Residential locations of car users are more widely distributed than those of public transport users.(d) A progressive outward shift of residences from inner areas to conurbation peripheries with an attendant increase in incommuting. (e) An increase in out-commuting by residents of conurbations and conurbation centres. (f) Residents in inner areas make shorter trips than residents in outer areas. (g) Workplaces in inner areas attract longer work-journeys than workplaces in peripheral areas.
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