Pseudonym | Gender | Age | Travel context |
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Andrew | Male | 43 | Cycles every day to work; lives a 12-minute cycle ride from work |
Debbie | Female | 61 | Reports some walking; lives in a small village 20 miles from work without good public transport and mainly drives; at time of survey she used park-and-ride and so walked from bus stop; at time of interview six months later she drives |
Frank | Male | 61 | Cycles four miles every day to work |
Gordon | Male | 68 | Is given a lift by partner halfway to work and walks the rest of the way; used to cycle the 6.5 miles from his village to work |
Greg | Male | 61 | Cycles 25 minutes every day to work from suburbs |
Hannah | Female | 23 | Walks 10 minutes every day to the bus stop to catch the bus to work; lives in village 13 miles outside of Cambridge, from which the journey takes her 1½ hours |
Isabel | Female | 52 | Cycles six miles every day to work from north of Cambridge to the south |
John | Male | 36 | Cycles 15 minutes every day to work |
Katie | Female | 42 | Cycles 15–20 minutes every day from the suburbs |
Lucy | Female | 45 | Drives every day to the park-and-ride facility and then walks 30 minutes to work |
Martin | Male | 49 | Usually drives the 15 miles to work but aims to cycle all the way twice a week |
Pete | Male | 41 | Cycles every day to work; most direct route would be 10 miles and take him 35 minutes |
Sam | Male | 58 | On four days a week car-shares with his wife to work; on fifth day, walks 20 minutes on a busy road to the railway station to travel the 15 miles to Cambridge and then walks a further 10 minutes to work |
Sophie | Female | 33 | Usually cycles from the park-and-ride to work, but once a week she cycles the six miles all the way to work from her village outside Cambridge |
Susanne | Female | 39 | Takes the bus to work; she also walks to the bus stop and still cycles between her two workplaces in Cambridge |