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International audience ; In a context where the transition to less polluting transportation modes represents a major challenge in the fight against global warming, travel by rail appears as most likely to compete with travel by car for long-distance leisure travel for families. Then, it seems interesting to focus on the needs of a little considered public, but who can have an impact on present and future modal choices: the children.The scientific literature dealing with train travel time use proposes to rethink the value of travel time, which is key to the implementation of public transport policies. Assuming that transport time could be active and productive allows to reconsider the place given to speed in transportation projects (Mokhtarian, Salomon and Redmond, 2001; Ettema and Verschuren, 2007; Heywood et al., 2009; Molin et al., 2020). This field of research considers transportation modes as spaces of activity and proposes various time use typologies as framework for travel time use analysis (Lyons and Urry, 2005; Circella, Mokhtarian and Poff, 2012; Russell, 2012; Keseru and Macharis, 2018). In particular, they highlight how the growing ICT use multiplies the opportunities for activities on board (Adoue, 2016; Clayton, 2020). However, existing knowledge on train travel time use, primarily focuses on adults and especially on people travelling (regularly) for work purposes, as they represent more regular and more identifiable passengers. (Holley, Jain and Lyons, 2008; Gustafson, 2012). Children are therefore doubly excluded from this literature: since their train journeys are mostly occasional and for leisure purposes; and since they do not represent direct economic actors able to make their own modal choice (Depeau, 2013; Wood, 2016). They are only considered through their parents point of view (Price and Matthews, 2013), and the activity "take care of someone" (Lyons and Urry, 2005) in some travel time use typologies. Moreover, research on family trips concentrate mostly on car journeys (Chaim Noy, 2012). ... |
