ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the commute refers to the familiar, routine, urban and suburban trips which many people doing paid or unpaid work have to undertake several times during a typical week. It stems from semi-longitudinal research on the changing metro commuting practices in Sofia, Bulgaria. A commuter's habitual journey is likely to undergo frequent changes, at both major and more subtle levels. In planning and carrying out research on metro commuting in Sofia, two theoretical considerations underpinned the data collection and analysis. The first, describes attending to the fact that travel habits, unlike the word habit' might suggest, are in fact fluid and unstable. The second consideration referred to the social nature of public transport commuting. The spatial cultures of particular urban environments are often shaped by the specific behaviours, the small doings and sayings which actors perform. Transport places great demands on cities in terms of scarce resources such as energy and space.
