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Commuting and wellbeing: a critical overview of the literature with implications for policy and future research

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  1. Saiz, Albert & Salazar-Miranda, Arianna, 2023. "Understanding Urban Economies, Land Use, and Social Dynamics in the City: Big Data and Measurement," IZA Discussion Papers 16501, IZA Network @ LISER.
  2. José Ignacio Giménez-Nadal & José Alberto Molina & Jorge Velilla, 2024. "The daily mobility of older adults: Urban/rural differences in ten developed countries," The Annals of Regional Science, Springer;Western Regional Science Association, vol. 72(1), pages 141-161, January.
  3. Wanqing Wei & Linyu Li, 2026. "Job-housing balance and job burnout among migrant workers: mechanisms and implications for housing support policies," Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 13(1), pages 1-12, December.
  4. Van Acker, Veronique & Cornet, Yannick & Milakis, Dimitris & Malichová, Eva & Ojeda-Cabral, Manuel, 2025. "Understanding worthwhile travel time: An empirical study of travel experiences across transport modes," Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Elsevier, vol. 192(C).
  5. Katja Schimohr & Eva Heinen & Joachim Scheiner, 2026. "The impact of relocations on distances traveled for commuting and grocery shopping: structural equation models of panel data," Transportation, Springer, vol. 53(1), pages 309-335, February.
  6. Navarrete-Hernandez, Pablo & Christopher Zegras, P., 2023. "Mind the perception gap: The impact of bus rapid transit infrastructure on travelers’ perceptions of affective subjective well-being," Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Elsevier, vol. 172(C).
  7. Bütikofer, Aline & Karadakic, René & Willén, Alexander, 2025. "Parenthood and the gender gap in commuting," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 248(C).
  8. Wang, Xize & Liu, Tao, 2022. "The Roads One Must Walk Down: Commute and Depression for Beijing’s Residents," SocArXiv dj8av, Center for Open Science.
  9. Giménez-Nadal, José Ignacio & Molina, José Alberto & Velilla, Jorge, 2022. "Trends in commuting time of European workers: A cross-country analysis," Transport Policy, Elsevier, vol. 116(C), pages 327-342.
  10. Ying Chen & Dorota Weziak-Bialowolska & Matthew T Lee & Piotr Bialowolski & Richard G Cowden & Eileen McNeely & Tyler J VanderWeele, 2023. "Working from home and subsequent work outcomes: Pre-pandemic evidence," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 18(4), pages 1-16, April.
  11. Inga Laß & Mark Wooden, 2023. "Working from Home and Work–Family Conflict," Work, Employment & Society, British Sociological Association, vol. 37(1), pages 176-195, February.
  12. Liu, Jixiang & Xiao, Longzhu, 2023. "Non-linear relationships between built environment and commuting duration of migrants and locals," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 106(C).
  13. Echeverría, Lucía & Gimenez-Nadal, J. Ignacio & Molina, José Alberto, 2022. "Active commuting and the health of workers," Nülan. Deposited Documents 3778, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Sociales, Centro de Documentación.
  14. Mingrong Deng & Shenhai Zhu & Bihu He & Heli Zhang, 2024. "Evaluation of urban ecological livability and obstacle factor diagnosis from a synergistic perspective: A case study of Zhangjiajie City, China," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 19(11), pages 1-23, November.
  15. Kroesen, Maarten, 2022. "Working from home during the corona-crisis is associated with higher subjective well-being for women with long (pre-corona) commutes," Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Elsevier, vol. 156(C), pages 14-23.
  16. Finnemann, Adam & Huth, Karoline & van der Maas, Han & Borsboom, Denny & Epskamp, Sacha, 2023. "The Urban Desirability Paradox: UK Urban-rural Differences in Well-being, Social, and Economic Satisfaction," OSF Preprints 3g2d8, Center for Open Science.
  17. Nicole Chaudhary & Megan Jones & Sean P. M. Rice & Laura Zeigen & Saurabh Suhas Thosar, 2024. "Transitioning to Working from Home Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic Significantly Increased Sedentary Behavior and Decreased Physical Activity: A Meta-Analysis," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 21(7), pages 1-13, June.
  18. Timmer, Sebastian & Merfeld, Katrin & Henkel, Sven, 2023. "Exploring motivations for multimodal commuting: A hierarchical means-end chain analysis," Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Elsevier, vol. 176(C).
  19. Caudevilla Biota, Eva, 2022. "Tiempo de desplazamientos hogar-trabajo en Bélgica: diferencias entre asalariados y autónomos [Home-work commuting time in Belgium: differences between employees and self-employed persons]," MPRA Paper 111457, University Library of Munich, Germany.
  20. Tengecha, Nyamatari Anselem & Alimo, Philip Kofi & Agyeman, Stephen & Akintunde, Tosin Yinka & Lartey-Young, George & Zhang, Xinyu, 2022. "Schoolchildren's inland water transport adoption barriers in Tanzania: Health belief model application," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 104(C).
  21. Sara MacLennan, 2024. "The Lower Thames crossing," CEP Occasional Papers 65, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE.
  22. Jessica Pykett & Benjamin Chrisinger & Kalliopi Kyriakou & Tess Osborne & Bernd Resch & Afroditi Stathi & Eszter Toth & Anna C. Whittaker, 2020. "Developing a Citizen Social Science approach to understand urban stress and promote wellbeing in urban communities," Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 6(1), pages 1-11, December.
  23. Pengxiang Ding & Suwei Feng, 2022. "How School Travel Affects Children’s Psychological Well-Being and Academic Achievement in China," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(21), pages 1-13, October.
  24. Kuhn, Sarah & Seibert, Holger & Weyh, Antje, 2025. "Struktur und Entwicklung der Pendlerbewegungen in der Lausitz," IAB-Regional. Berichte und Analysen aus dem Regionalen Forschungsnetz. IAB Berlin-Brandenburg 202502, Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nürnberg [Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg, Germany].
  25. Alimo, Philip Kofi & Agyeman, Stephen & Agen-Davis, Lawrencia & Hisseine, Mahamat Ali & Sarfo, Isaac, 2024. "Lived transportation barriers for persons with disabilities: Contextualizing the Ghana disability law through the lenses of Giddens' theory of structuration," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 118(C).
  26. Loo, Becky P.Y. & Tsoi, Ka Ho, 2024. "Stressors for bus commuters and ways of improving bus journeys," Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Elsevier, vol. 187(C).
  27. Atsushi Iimi, 2023. "Estimating the demand for informal public transport: evidence from Antananarivo, Madagascar," Public Transport, Springer, vol. 15(1), pages 129-168, March.
  28. Arman, Gamze & Oğuz-Çevik, Melis & Okay-Somerville, Belgin, 2025. "Psychological mechanisms of commuting: A cognitive dissonance approach to intercontinental commuting discomfort in Istanbul," Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Elsevier, vol. 195(C).
  29. Jiankun Yang & Min He & Mingwei He, 2022. "Exploring the Group Difference in the Nonlinear Relationship between Commuting Satisfaction and Commuting Time," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(14), pages 1-19, July.
  30. Giménez-Nadal, José Ignacio & Molina, José Alberto & Velilla, Jorge, 2021. "Two-way commuting: Asymmetries from time use surveys," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 95(C).
  31. Lena Kilian & Anne Owen & Andy Newing & Diana Ivanova, 2022. "Exploring Transport Consumption-Based Emissions: Spatial Patterns, Social Factors, Well-Being, and Policy Implications," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(19), pages 1-26, September.
  32. Linlin Wu & Zhen Qin & Peng Jing & Ying Xue & Danning Shao & Pan Luo, 2025. "The Causal Effect of Active School Travel on Children’s Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from the China Family Panel Survey," Journal of Happiness Studies, Springer, vol. 26(6), pages 1-28, August.
  33. Mars, Lidón & Arroyo, Rosa & Ruiz, Tomás, 2022. "Mobility and wellbeing during the covid-19 lockdown. Evidence from Spain," Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Elsevier, vol. 161(C), pages 107-129.
  34. Baro, Rimpi & Rao, K.V. Krishna & Velaga, Nagendra R., 2025. "Dissecting gender differences in Commute wellbeing and Quality of life interaction in a developing country context," Research in Transportation Economics, Elsevier, vol. 112(C).
  35. Wei Kang & Qun Wang & Long Cheng & Meng Ning, 2024. "Examining Commuters’ Intention to Use App-Based Carpooling: Insights from the Technology Acceptance Model," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 16(14), pages 1-17, July.
  36. Li, Shengxiao (Alex) & Guan, Xiaodong & Wang, Donggen, 2022. "How do constrained car ownership and car use influence travel and life satisfaction?," Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Elsevier, vol. 155(C), pages 202-218.
  37. Xize Wang & Tao Liu, 2022. "The Roads One Must Walk Down: Commute and Depression for Beijing's Residents," Papers 2207.07990, arXiv.org.
  38. Hirte, Georg & Laes, Renée & Gerike, Regine, 2023. "Working from self-driving cars," Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Elsevier, vol. 176(C).
  39. Zhu, Wei & Wang, Jiejing & Liu, Tao, 2024. "Trade time for space: Does living space moderate the relationship between commuting duration and mental health in Beijing?," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 121(C).
  40. Ma, Liang & Huang, Yan & Shi, Wenqian & Lin, Jian, 2025. "Relocating home or changing job? The impact of long commuting," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 123(C).
  41. Bhaskar Jyoti Neog, 2022. "Temperature shocks and rural labour markets: evidence from India," Climatic Change, Springer, vol. 171(1), pages 1-20, March.
  42. Geoff Tomaino & Jasper Teow & Ziv Carmon & Leonard Lee & Moshe Ben-Akiva & Charlene Chen & Wai Yan Leong & Shanjun Li & Nan Yang & Jinhua Zhao, 2020. "Mobility as a service (MaaS): the importance of transportation psychology," Marketing Letters, Springer, vol. 31(4), pages 419-428, December.
  43. Mouratidis, Kostas, 2021. "How COVID-19 reshaped quality of life in cities: A synthesis and implications for urban planning," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 111(C).
  44. Dagmara Stangierska & Iwona Kowalczuk & Ksenia Juszczak-Szelągowska & Katarzyna Widera & Weronika Ferenc, 2022. "Urban Environment, Green Urban Areas, and Life Quality of Citizens—The Case of Warsaw," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(17), pages 1-15, September.
  45. Julene Paul, 2025. "Hitchhiking on the digital highway: Assessing the costs and benefits of informal ridesharing," Transportation, Springer, vol. 52(3), pages 983-1014, June.
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  47. Cui, Shuang & Tian, Lijun & Bao, Yue & Zhang, Zhichao, 2025. "Impacts of negative congestion experiences on acceptance of tradable credits schemes: Integration of NAM and TPB," Transport Policy, Elsevier, vol. 160(C), pages 192-211.
  48. Ghadir Pourhashem & Christina Georgouli & Eva Malichová & Milan Straka & Tatiana Kováčiková, 2024. "Factors influencing the perceived value of travel time in European urban areas," Transportation, Springer, vol. 51(4), pages 1525-1545, August.
  49. Yen Tran & Naohisa Hashimoto & Takafumi Ando & Toshihisa Sato & Naoki Konishi & Yuji Takeda & Motoyuki Akamatsu, 2024. "The indirect effect of travel mode use on subjective well-being through out-of-home activities," Transportation, Springer, vol. 51(6), pages 2359-2391, December.
  50. Zhou, Mingzhi & Zhou, Jiali & Zhou, Jiangping & Lei, Shuyu & Zhao, Zhan, 2023. "Introducing social contacts into the node-place model: A case study of Hong Kong," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 107(C).
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  53. José M. Casado-Díaz & Raquel Simón-Albert & Hipólito Simón, 2023. "Gender Differences in Commuting: New Evidence from Spain," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 169(3), pages 907-941, October.
  54. Wang, Donggen & Yang, Min, 2023. "Gendered mobility and activity pattern: implications for gendered mental health," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 110(C).
  55. Santiago Sánchez González & Felipe Bedoya-Maya & Agustina Calatayud, 2021. "Understanding the Effect of Traffic Congestion on Accidents Using Big Data," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(13), pages 1-19, July.
  56. Zhang, Hong & Xu, Shan & Liu, Xuan & Liu, Chengliang, 2021. "Near “real-time” estimation of excess commuting from open-source data: Evidence from China's megacities," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 91(C).
  57. Guillaume Drevon & Philippe Gerber & Vincent Kaufmann, 2020. "Dealing with Daily Rhythms: Families’ Strategies to Tackle Chronic Time Pressure," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(17), pages 1-21, September.
  58. Tao, Yinhua & van Ham, Maarten & Petrović, Ana & Ta, Na, 2023. "A household perspective on the commuting paradox: Longitudinal relationships between commuting time and subjective wellbeing for couples in China," Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Elsevier, vol. 170(C).
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  60. Yin, Chaoying & Zhang, Junyi & Shao, Chunfu & Wang, Xiaoquan, 2024. "Commute and built environment: What matters for subjective well-being in a household context?," Transport Policy, Elsevier, vol. 154(C), pages 198-206.
  61. Poudel, Niranjan & Singleton, Patrick A., 2024. "Willingness to pay for changes in travel time and work time: A stated choice experiment of US commuters," Research in Transportation Economics, Elsevier, vol. 103(C).
  62. Maheshwari, Richa & Van Acker, Veronique & Gerber, Philippe, 2024. "Commuting vs teleworking: How does it impact the relationship between commuting satisfaction and subjective well-being," Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Elsevier, vol. 182(C).
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  64. Tao, Yinhua & Petrović, Ana & van Ham, Maarten, 2023. "Working from home and subjective wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic: The role of pre-COVID-19 commuting distance and mode choices," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 112(C).
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  66. Li, Hanyan & Ma, Jing & Tao, Sui, 2024. "Exploring the relationships among commute, work and life satisfaction: A multiscale analysis in Beijing," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 118(C).
  67. Ning Qiu & Wen Li & Xinyu Han & Yuxiao Jiang & Zhiwei Zhang & Mengbing Du, 2025. "Active commuting: an alternative source of health-promoting physical activity in job–housing imbalance contexts," Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 12(1), pages 1-14, December.
  68. Lucia Kvasková & Karel Rečka & Stanislav Ježek & Petr Macek, 2022. "Time Spent on Daily Activities and Its Association with Life Satisfaction among Czech Adolescents from 1992 to 2019," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(15), pages 1-14, August.
  69. Inga Laß & Thomas Skora & Heiko Rüger & Mark Wooden & Martin Bujard, 2024. "Does temporary employment increase length of commuting? Longitudinal evidence from Australia and Germany," Transportation, Springer, vol. 51(4), pages 1467-1491, August.
  70. Damian Whittard & Felix Ritchie & Van Phan & Alex Bryson & John Forth & Lucy Stokes & Carl Singleton, 2023. "The perils of pre-filling: lessons from the UK's Annual Survey of Hours and Earning microdata," Economics Discussion Papers em-dp2023-11, Department of Economics, University of Reading.
  71. Muzhi Zhou & Mingming Li & Qiyan Wang, 2024. "Deteriorating Work and Commuting Patterns in Beijing: a Time-diary Cluster Analysis from 2001 to 2021," Applied Research in Quality of Life, Springer;International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies, vol. 19(2), pages 619-640, April.
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  73. Jin, Eunae & Kim, Danya & Jin, Jangik, 2022. "Commuting time and perceived stress: Evidence from the intra- and inter-city commuting of young workers in Korea," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 104(C).
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