Mobility is a term used to describe people's movement in space. The individual's choice of transportation mode has always varied depending on factors such as availability and economy, but also on gender. Studies show that in most cases, the woman in a family travels collectively to work while the man uses the car. Women furthermore tend to seek work closer to home because of the continued perception of themselves as the main accountable for nursing children. Collective modes of transport possess a variety of factors which affects the user's design of everyday life. Timetables, fixed stops and delays are some examples of obstacles that a collective traveler needs to take into account when planning the travel. Furthermore higher stress levels and limited leisure time are examples of consequences that can affect public transport users. The purpose of this qualitative study is to investigate women's experience of work trips and how they deal with possible disturbances in the work travel. The goal is to gain a deeper insight into work trips as part of an individual's daily life. In this case women living in a society located ca 30 km from their workplace in northern Sweden. For this reason, it was considered valuable for the study to conduct in depth interviews. The analysis method underlying this study is a thematic analysis. The analytic coding led to the finding of 3 themes regarding women´s perception about work travel. The themes were; reliability in the transport system, individual flexibility and personal priorities.

This thesis addresses how the travellers participate in the production of space during train travels. It is based on a study of intervjues made in December 2013 with six members of the Swedish parliament who all are frequent travellers on the high speed train between Stockholm and Gothenburg. Using Henri Lefebvres theory of the production of space and contemporary theories on spending time during train travel combined with theories of how space and time are bound together as a timespace. The conclusion is that traveller do participate in the production of the train space by activities taking place based on the special conditions of the trainspace during the journey. Activities that forms the idea of lived space on the train as one of three spaces based on Lefebvres model of the triad of space. The study also identify the need of further research on the train space as a space of its own as we spend more and more time in this space.