Publication details
Commuting patterns in the Brno Metropolitan Area
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| Year of publication | 2023 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | Commuting as an important element in individuals’ daily lives has been undergoing gradual changes. In connection with the increasing importance of the tertiary sector in the economy and the flexibilization of working hours and work location, the redistribution of commuting flows in time and space is observed. This contribution is focused on the spatiotemporal loosening up of the commuting patterns in Brno’s metropolitan area. This contribution aims to characterize and further understand these changes in commuting behaviour by using a questionnaire survey and semistructured interviews in order to describe the specific practices of the individuals that are behind it. Attention is given to individualization and flexibilization of commuting. This contribution uses the terms temporal displacement and spatial unbinding of commuting to express the current nature of commuting. The results indicate that the commute is spread out over several hours with that the return commute home from work is more deconcentrated. It turns out that a number of individuals have the ability to take journeys to work and from work flexibly, according to their needs and preferences. This makes specific journeys more complicated. Simultaneously the phenomenon of the daily commute clearly weakens. A three-day or four-day commute within a week has proven to be a common occurrence. The spatial dimension of commuting is also changing. As the semi-structured interviews with the participants showed, in addition to the home, cafes, means of transport and other originally non-working places become conventional commuting centres. This contribution summariizes the changes and emphasis qualitative changes in commuting patterns that become visible at the individual level. |