This report describes the literature on the relations between residential locations and workplace and the influence of the traffic and transport system on these relations. . The residential choice and the choice for work location and changes in this locations are influenced by many factors. Not only age, income, sex, education and the traffic and transport system are of importance. Also important seems to be the dynamics in life cycle of individuals and households, careers in the housing market and the labour market and mobility careers, dynamics in the housing market and the labour market and in the transport system, as well as their relations. . For residential choice and the choice of the workplace distance between old and new locations seem to be very important. These distances are strongly related to the migration motives. Many researchers don't consider differences in this distance. Therefore sometimes relevant information is lost and a wrong description of reality is given.