Stressed mobilities: understanding the significance of the commute for city-workers

Stressed mobilities: understanding the significance of the commute for city-workers

It is no secret that commuting within many Australian cities is the source of significant pressure. Yet whilst commuting stress is a much-vaunted part of life in Australian cities, its effects are yet to be properly understood. In order to better grasp the changing nature of city life and understand how cities might be made better for their inhabitants, it is vital that we develop a richer understanding of how the pressures of commuting emerge and impact on people’s work and home lives and their longer-term plans. Through research with commuters in Sydney, this project is exploring this crucial but overlooked part of city life, by investigating how the commute impacts on our sense of well-being. This project is the first of its kind which grapples with how these stresses and strains emerge, play out through home and work life, and impact on the longer-term wellbeing of city workers.

This project is supported by an Australian Research Council DECRA award DE120102279.

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