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This book examines how travel time is actively constructed in historic and contextualized transit practices. It analyzes case studies of travel in technological cultures, such as nineteenth century train excursions, car travel to US National Parks, air travel, and cycling in Dutch towns. New concepts are developed to evaluate mobility innovations.

In social theory and sociology, time and travel in technological cultures is one of the new and challenging research topics in the 'mobilities turn'. Yet surprisingly, contemporary practices of mobility have till now, seen only limited theorization within these disciplines. By analyzing historic and contextualized transit practices, this revealing book argues that travel cannot now simply be reduced to getting from A to B; it is an integrated part of everyday life. In this area, researching how problems can be identified as dilemmas and reformulated as design problems helps create a new...