ABSTRACT
The many aspects of the journey work hardly lend themselves to examination by a single statistical inquiry. Transport statistics, on the contrary, usually yield no other information than a few data on the journey; in one exceptional case only, railway records furnished the material for a comprehensive investigation. An attempt to combine the demographic comprehensiveness with a measurement of the journeys was made in an investigation of the daily movements in the Industrial Region of Central Germany, an area of rapid industrial development. Workmen's tickets accounted for 42% of all train journeys in Belgium; approximately one-fourth of the total industrial workers participated in them. The towns had an out-flow of skilled, the countryside of unskilled workers. The frequency of accidents and of sickness, the duration per case of sickness, and other industrial absenteeism grew with increasing length and strain of the journey.
