Travel Cards
The Travel Remedy Kit ‘Card Deck’ is the basis of deciding how a train journey can be remedied.
The cards and their instructions are still available to download.
The cards help you to consider the journey from the moment of departure to the moment of arrival–and the experiences that may need to be ‘remedied’. The cards help to suggest the items you might carry in your personal kit to ‘remedy’ your journey.
Travel Kit
The ‘Travel Remedy Kit’ was created as a result of my ethnography of public train travel in the UK during 2007.
The method was intended to validate my findings with participants who wanted to have their experience of a train journey ‘remedied’. The results went on to inform national transport policy on the benefits of travel time.
This was part of the research project ‘Travel Time Use in the Information Age’ at Centre for Mobilities Research, Lancaster University, and Centre for Transport & Society, University of the West of England.
We published the method in detail as Watts, L. and Lyons, G. (2010) Travel Remedy Kit: Interventions into Train Lines and Passenger Times, in Buscher, M. Urry, J. and Witchger, K. (eds.) Mobile Methods. Routledge.