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\nWhat is the importance for humanity for its ability to travel?
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\n\n\nWith contributions from many people and casting a totally refreshing view on people\u2019s deep-seated desire to travel, is a new book \u2013 Why Travel? \u2013 edited by Dr Matthew Niblett and Kris Beuret OBE, of the Independent Transport Commission.
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\n\n\nLeon Daniels OBE chats to them about editing the book, which has contributions from many people, not just in travel businesses, but beyond.\xa0
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\n\n\nIn essence, it\u2019s an anthology of travel by a range of people, that also takes in the social aspects to understand our need to move and how it shapes our lives.
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\n\n\nKris tells Leon that she was inspired to produce the book after being \u201cfed up\u201d with transport modelling \u201cthat assumes that travel is all about time saved.\u201d
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\n\n\nThe range of contributors shed a different viewpoint from the popularly-presented one that travel is unpleasant and something to be avoided.
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\n\n\nThey mull over why commuting is beneficial, why an hour is the ideal commute and what we\u2019ve done to replace it
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\n\n\nThey discuss how much travel we need for our wellbeing, our complicated needs to travel and whether technology is the enemy.
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\n\n\nConsidering transport policy, there\u2019s a discussion about whether we should move away from thinking about restricting travel to better travel, that then moves onto why \u2018slower travel\u2019 can be better travel and the benefit of cheap travel.\xa0
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\n\n\nThey conclude by examining what young people will do to change travel behaviours and how that fits with their generational view of the need to be \u2018green\u2019.
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\n\n\n\nhttps://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/why-travel
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\n\n\n\nKris Beuret
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\n\n\nKris Beuret OBE is the Director of Social Research Associates (SRA). She is a sociologist, previously an academic, and a member of the Independent Transport Commission and Highways England\u2019s Research and Innovation Advisory Board. Kris has advised the House of Commons Transport Committee, TfL, the DfT and overseas governments on disability and diversity issues.
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\n\n\n\nMatthew Niblett
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\n\n\nDr Matthew Niblett is Director of the Independent Transport Commission (ITC) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He oversees the ITC's research portfolio and has presented findings from this research to Ministers and Parliamentary Select Committee enquiries. Matthew holds a doctorate from the University of Oxford and was a Senior Research Associate at Oxford's Transport Studies Unit.
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