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Chapter One Introduction
Introduction
This report summarises the results of a study commissioned by the Scottish Executive to investigate long distance commuting in Scotland. Scottish Household Survey ( SHS) and Census data, transport modelling techniques and focus group research were used to investigate the pattern and prevalence of long distance commuting in Scotland.
The research and analysis is separated into nine main sections as follows:
- background and previous research (Chapter 2)
- data collation and cleaning (Chapter 3)
- understanding the current geographic pattern of long distance commuting (Chapter 4)
- understanding the impact of long distance commuting on the Scottish transport network (Chapter 5)
- investigating trends in long distance commuting (Chapter 6)
- understanding the long distance commuter - quantitative analysis (Chapter 7)
- understanding the long distance commuter - qualitative research (Chapter 8)
- conclusions and policy considerations (Chapter 9)
Additional relevant material is provided in a number of Annexes, as follows:
- Annex 1 contains analysis of major employment centres
- Annex 2 contains comparisons of 1991 and 2001 Census travel to work data
- Annex 3 contains Scottish Household data analysis: results from Analysis of Variance
- Annex 4 contains the focus group topic guide
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