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Travel Time Use and Place Attachment among Highly Mobile People

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This chapter focuses on how highly mobile people use travel time and spaces of high mobility. These individuals spend a great deal of time travelling in places that are often far away and sometimes unfamiliar. To what extent do they become attached to and identify with these spaces of high mobility? How do they use their travel time? What meaning do these spaces and does travel time have for them?

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  1. Stéphanie Vincent-Geslin
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  1. University of Edinburgh, UK

    Gil Viry

  2. Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

    Vincent Kaufmann

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Vincent-Geslin, S., Ravalet, E. (2015). Travel Time Use and Place Attachment among Highly Mobile People. In: Viry, G., Kaufmann, V. (eds) High Mobility in Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137447388_9

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