Commuting

Commuting is periodically recurring travel between one's place of residence and place of work or study, where the traveler leaves the boundary of their home community. It sometimes refers to any regular or often repeated traveling between locations, even when not work-related. The modes of travel, time taken and distance traveled in commuting varies widely across the globe. Most people in least-developed countries continue to walk to work, as the ancestors of all people did until the nineteenth century. The cheapest method of commuting after walking is usually by bicycle, so this is common in low-income countries, but is also …

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MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 12 November 2024 English

Railway commuting is today a mundane and routine necessity, yet for the Victorians it was a novel experience. It opened up new possibilities of living at a remove from the crowded urban centre while staying staying connected to its places of work. Commuting helped transform London’s urban landscape, as the compact city of Dickens’s London gave way to the suburban sprawl of the British capital in the early quickly to Victorian Britain, commuting took a slower journey to commonplace status. In the 1840s William Gladstone sought to make railway travel accessible to all, but commuting was experienced differently

Slow Train to Arcadia A History of Railway Commuting into London Duncan Gager states, people Slow Train to Arcadia A History of Railway Commuting into London duncan gager McGill-Queen’s University Slow train to Arcadia : a history of railway commuting into London / Duncan Gager. Names: Gager, century. | lcsh: Commuting—England—London—History—19th century. | lcsh: Commuting England—London—History—20th System 25 2 The Early Commuting Experience 57 3 The Coming of Age of Railway Commuting, 1860–1880 83 4 The


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 12 November 2024 English

Prisoners’ Bodies investigates the history of the Irish ordinary prisoners’ movement and how it was shaped by public discourse, highlighting the lived experiences of individual people in prison.

10 Slow Train to Arcadia A History of Railway Commuting into London Duncan Gager 11 Prisoners’ Bodies


AUP: Athabasca University Press · 29 October 2024 English

This introductory human resource management (HRM) textbook provides students with an overview of the major domains of human resource management (the “how-to”) with a focus on the practical application of …

Only those workers who live within a reasonable commuting distance will be interested in such a job, and


CIHI: Canadian Institute for Health Information · 26 September 2024 English

These notes summarize the overall approach, data sources and definitions for this project’s analysis.

SACtype takes into account population size and commuting to large urban centres. A category is assigned


VTPI: Victoria Transport Policy Institute · 18 September 2024 English

It examines interregional public transport demands and the degree that those demands are currently being served, discusses the costs of inadequate interregional transit services, defines optimal interregional transit service levels, …

(2024)). It includes many high value business, commuting, recreation, and healthcare trips that provide


Canadian Chamber of Commerce · 17 September 2024 English

Background Prior to the issuance of the Report of the Royal Commission on Taxation more commonly referred to as the Carter Commission in 1966, the unit of taxation in Canada …

transportation over traditional single-occupant automotive commuting, skilled trades, technical workers, and businesses to see higher rates of single-occupant vehicle commuting, and reduced levels of AT modes of transit used services alleviate the typical pressures of FLM commuting, they can enhance ridership and provide a truly


Community Foundation Canada · 16 September 2024 English

small- and medium-sized enterprises The new Storyteller-in-Residence program is part of UVic’s commitment to ʔetal nəwəl — which means relationships with 11.4: Strengthen efforts to protect and safeguard the lands, …

to a destination: compared to a year ago 20% commuting to work and school 22% 32% 45% more often less


EAC: Centre d'action écologique · 11 September 2024 English

Affordable housing is primarily the responsibility of the provincial government, and municipal planners are restricted by the Municipal Government Act, but municipalities still have many tools they can and should …

improvements increased the percentage of residents commuting by active transportation from three per cent to


FRHD: Freehand Books · 1 September 2024 English

that every single moment of the day was accounted for. Then she finds herself as a new mother, commuting four hours a day into the city, exhausted by the state of the world, paralyzed by climate guilt


VTPI: Victoria Transport Policy Institute · 29 August 2024 English

This reduces user expenses, community infrastructure and traffic impact costs, pavement area and environmental harms, and because they walk and bicycle more, residents tend to be healthier and have more …

Central neighborhood workers spend far less time commuting than those who live in outer suburbs even though Survey in 2022 only 22% of personal 2% Commuting trip are for commuting or work; the rest are & work for shopping important to urban neighborhood economies as downtown commuting declines. Households in compact, walkable areas as more telework and working at home reduces commuting. A typical commuter spends $2,000 to $4,000 annually


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