Planes, Trains, and Automobiles

This chapter looks at the work undertaken while on the move as an instance of the interplace economy. It considers the interplaces composed of the fixed infrastructures that make mobility possible—the economies associated with railways and railway stations, airports, and roads and exit ramps. It goes on to examine the distributed patterns of work that are prevalent as a result of increased physical and virtual mobility. The chapter has attempted to provide some sense of the economic importance of these interplaces as the largely ‘new’ places associated with fixed infrastructures for trains, planes, and automobiles, on the one hand, and the liminal spaces of transit, on the other hand.