Dear Sarah
Can I suggest you seek out a very interesting paper in this area, by
André Duarte, Camila Garcia, Gregory Giannarakis and Susana Limão, entitled New Approaches in Transportation Planning: Happiness and Transport Economics; from last year I think.
Best wishes
Bryan
Bryan Matthews
Senior Research Fellow
Institute for Transport Studies and Centre for Disability Studies
University of Leeds
LS2 9JT
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 113 3435341
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From: Universities Transport Study Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Sarah Whitebread
Sent: 21 February 2011 14:52
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Subject: [UTSG] Commuting and happiness project
I am a postgraduate student at Cambridge University and for my dissertation
am hoping to carry out a study into commuting and wellbeing. The research
will build on findings by Kahneman (2006) that commuting is the least happy
time in a persons day, and attempt to break this down by transport mode,
length and type of journey.
I wondered whether anyone on this list knew of any similar research, or
papers generally on transport and wellbeing? I would very much appreciate
any comments readers of this list have.
Best wishes,
Sarah Whitebread
Clare College, Cambridge
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