ABSTRACT
In some loose sense the movement of people or things was a fairly consistent concern, reappearing in various disguises. This interest was sometimes quite tightly tied to issues conventionally understood to be about ‘transport’, including the process of learning to drive, the business of waiting for a train, the practicalities of studying car-parking or of doing research whilst on a moving bus. Moving, whether by car, plane, bus or train, also involves moments and sometimes extensive periods of immobility including parking, waiting, queuing and standing about. One of the good things about mobility studies is that it is such a broad field. It was therefore possible to move between ideas about the proximity of people, about how things and people come together, and about how relations are constituted and how they change. Wireless connectivity is also increasingly important, not only in rail carriages but also in waiting rooms, stations and related facilities.
