On 16 October 2008, IHT held the first Learned Society Lecture, sponsored by Mott MacDonald, ‘Briefcase travelling – time use and value’. Professor Glenn Lyons, Director of the Centre for Transport & Society at the University of the West of England provided an insight into the value of people’s travel time.
Since the 1960s billions of pounds of transport investment in the UK has been justified on the basis of saving travel time. What is inferred is that travel time is wasted time, yet at least some people, some of the time, are making productive use of their time.
Professor Lyons' research with colleagues in this area has a focus on business travel and has revealed that travel time can represent an important part of an individual’s day. It gives a different environment in which to work, relax, socialise and to gear up and wind down between different roles and activities. In the context of the knowledge economy.
Professor Lyons posed challenges to the enduring orthodoxy of transport investment, which has so profoundly shaped transport and society in the pursuit of quicker journeys.
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