ABSTRACT
‘Time-geography concerns individuals’ movements, couplings and de-couplings in the time-space; hence, the material dimension is fundamental. Initially studies on accessibility dominated time-geographic research, mainly based on the concepts of the individual path and the prism. This laid the ground for the activity-based transportation approach, which stresses that transportation is mainly a time-consuming geographical movement, a link between activities that are performed in sequence, and seldom a goal in itself. Transportation, then, is an activity that is generated by the individual’s motives to move from one place to another in order to perform other activities. This chapter concerns on aspects of mobility in daily life, like politics and inequalities, but also discusses how to conceptualize and analyze mobility, and what new data collection methods might imply.
