ABSTRACT
Today's society demands mobility, and the emphasis on the car as the dominant means of transport has both environmental and social consequences. The relationship between gender, transport and daily physical mobility has attracted considerable attention in recent years. In general, men's travel patterns have caused more environmental problems than women's, because they travel longer distances and use cars more often than women. The study of men and women's daily travel patterns can be seen as a 'barometer' of the state of equality between men and women in society. This chapter presents an analysis of everyday travel and mobility in Norway from 1992 to 2005. Everyday travel and mobility reflect social activities and positions and are related to temporal and spatial aspects of social institutions, the division of labour and unpaid work, and access to resources. The chapter reveals that women and men's travel patterns reflect their different social positions.
