When New Lifestyles Disrupt Daily Mobility in England

Thanks to new “remote” practices enabled by the development of teleworking and online shopping, we can perform our activities in a greater variety of locations, and many trips that were previously necessary are now avoidable. But the organization of our everyday life is becoming more complex, and these trends are seemingly leading us to perform more and more carbon-emitting trips. By exploring data relating to England from the UK National Travel Survey, this research was able to refine the analysis of daily mobility usually carried out in France (where surveys are based on one “typical day”) by considering the variability of travel over a whole week, which reflects our increasingly fragmented lives more authentically.