Travel is the price we pay to be with others, at least it is a very substantial part of the generalised cost of meeting them. If we accept this proposition, and consider that the vast majority of travel serves activities with others, then one has to wonder, why the social content of activities and the constraints arising from coordination with others has received so little attention so far in transport research. This paper supplements the previous extensive qualitative research by the analysis of a large quantitative survey of egocentric social networks in Zurich. The exact geocoding of the ego’s and alteri’s home location builds the basis for this paper’s analysis of the size and structure of social network geographies and the distances in...