Design for Wellbeing

6    ‘Joyful journeys’

Putting wellbeing at the centre of future travel

Luke Harmer, Rebecca Cain and Artur Mausbach

Journeys are changing – how can future journeys be joyful?

Mobility has become essential for our modern way of life. It provides people with access to services, opportunities, entertainment and health. Mobility is traditionally associated with progress, contributing to, and a consequence of, economic development in industrialised countries (Andrews et al., 2006). Nevertheless, the environmental impacts of current mobility have been questioned and the industry is facing the challenge to shift its paradigms towards new and more sustainable mobility (Gott, 2009).

Ettema et al. (2013) demonstrate the connection between wellbeing ...