2015/05/26 by Annemarie Künn‐Nelen
Engineering · Social Sciences · #Traffic and Road Safety #Transportation Planning and Optimization #Urban Transport and Accessibility
paper · doi:10.1002/hec.3199
openalex publication_date 2015/05/26 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
This paper analyzes the relation between commuting time and health in the UK. I focus on four different types of health outcomes: subjective health measures, objective health measures, health behavior, and healthcare utilization. Fixed effect models are estimated with British Household Panel Survey data. I find that whereas objective health and health behavior are barely affected by commuting time, subjective health measures are clearly lower for people who commute longer. A longer commuting time is, moreover, related to more visits to the general practitioner. Effects turn out to be more pronounced for women and for commuters driving a car. For women, commuting time is also negatively related to regular exercise and positively to calling in sick. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.