This research area is concerned with social conditions for travel activity and mobility, developing theories and improving methods for collecting data on travel behaviour.
All transport modes and travel purposes are covered, whether private or work and business related. We also study the interplay between transport and ICT (information and communication technology), the social drivers for travel activity, and the perceptual aspects of journeys on the job and in everyday life.
Nearly half of all working professionals had home offices in March 2020 because of the coronavirus. 47 percent of them say they are just as effective or more efficient now than in their regular workplace.
A new report focuses on identifying trends that can cause radical change in the relationship between the transport system and society.
and they start to participate in organized leisure activities at a younger age.
Adoption of electric vehicles among crafts- and service enterprises in Norway is currently low, but there seems to be a strong interest for a wider use in the future.
In 2013/14 the population in Norway undertook an average of 3.26 trips per day. The average trip is 14,5 km, an increase from 2009, and lasts for 24 minutes. The average length travelled per day by each person is 47,2 km, spending 78 minutes again an increase from 2009.
In Norway only three percent of the single car trips are longer than 80 km. In Denmark the percentage is four.
Travellers’ in the cities of Oslo and Trondheim in Norway have largely adopted the new technology, although there are significant differences related to gender, age and status at the workplace.
Mobility is an important aspect of welfare and well-being. A large majority of people aged 67 years and older state that access to transport is essential to their quality of life, i.e. a good transport service is necessary if they are to have an active social life.
The number of passenger-kilometres in public transport showed a 1.6 per cent increase in Norway in 2010, while the number of person-kilometres by passenger car increased by 1.0 per cent.
