Are people aware of any research into the travel behaviour of mobile professionals?
The study I am about to begin concerns peripatetic professional staff in the NHS. A number of NHS trusts have done their own staff travel surveys, as part of the travel planning process. These seem focussed almost entirely on commuting.
The wider literature on mobile working either tends to give broad overviews (e.g. Aguilera 2008) or to focus on the use of technology, the role of homeworking etc. for staff who are able to choose where/when they work to some extent.
So far I have found one just study of people who travel to clients' homes - hairstylists, who are self-employed and likewise, face rather different circumstances than the ones I am looking at (Cohen 2010).
Does anyone have any other suggestions?
Best Regards
Dr Steve Melia
Senior Lecturer
Centre for Transport & Society
Department of Planning and Architecture
University of the West of England
Coldharbour Lane
Bristol BS16 1QY
Aguilera, A. (2008) Business travel and mobile workers. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice [online]. 42 (8), pp.1109-1116. Available from: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6VG7-4SGTS88-1/2/5cc1e81f0c08a3b8b564315811f1dd47.
Cohen, R.L. (2010) Rethinking ‘mobile work’: boundaries of space, time and social relation in the working lives of mobile hairstylists. Work, Employment & Society [online]. 24 (1), pp.65-84.
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