Public transportation hospitality is thus a tension-filled drama, co-produced by transportation companies and commuters. Because commuters grant transportation companies daily access to the intimacy of their homes, they are hosting the companies, not the opposite. Home is more than the physical space of the house it is an embodied perception of a familiar cultural space which is organized in such a way that one has some control and responsibility over. They do not own it in terms of legal ownership, although they possess a valid ticket they own it via the degree to which they are at home in their routines and intuitively know through the senses and feelings produced through the normal flow of daily practices, that they are on their own home turf. Correspondingly, commuters own their commuting space. Commuting routines are a constitutive part of commuters’ lives.

It is not an innocuous in-between-doors passage, but a social practice intertwined with the routines bound to the home, workplace, and places of leisure which they commute to and from.

Commuting is an experience whose rhythm structures daily lives. But commuters resist being reduced to the thankful guests of their commuting service providers. In their own view, public transportation companies make a very hospitable offer to commuters: if you are ready to travel with us, we will take you for a reasonable price nearly anywhere, every day and almost at any time of the day, under good conditions of comfort and safety.

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