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Travel to Work Area or
TTWA is a statistical tool used by
UK Government agencies and
local authorities, especially by the
Department for Work and Pensions and
Job Centres, to indicate an area where the
population would generally
commute to a larger
town,
city or
conurbation for the purposes of
employment.
As a measure based on urban areas and their
commuter hinterland they're a form of
Metropolitan Area, though as methods of calculation differ they can't directly be compared with other specific measurements such as
Metropolitan Statistical Areas in the
United States.
TTWAs have no
legal status. However, they give planners and
geographers an alternate view of
urban life as their boundaries are tied not to arbitrary
administrative limits but
socio-economic ties. Having an idea of where people commute from for work is particularly useful for
public transport planning.
Definition
Travel to Work Areas are defined by the
Office for National Statistics using
census data for commuting between
wards, based on the different locations of individuals' home and work addresses.
A Travel to Work Area is a collection of wards for which "of the resident economically active population, at least 75% actually work in the area, and also, that of everyone working in the area, at least 75% actually live in the area". According to this measure, there were 308 TTWAs within the United Kingdom in 1998.
The State of the Cities
Travel to Work Areas were selected to approximate
city regions as one of the main units of comparison used by the
State of the English Cities report and database, commissioned and maintained by the
Communities and Local Government department of the UK Government.
This has greatly increased the amount of information available about Travel to Work Areas, although the
State of the Cities only publishes data for the 56 Travel to Work Areas based around
Primary Urban Areas in
England. Travel to Work Areas in
Scotland and
Wales and those covering only rural areas are not included.
To increase the range of statistics available the
State of the Cities also publishes data for Travel to Work Areas approximated to local authority boundaries. These areas can differ considerably from the more accurate
ward-based areas.
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