Research of a sort -- in the United Kingdom has found that travel by motorcoach is less stressful than going by plane, train or automobile.

With the aid of digital blood monitors, four female researchers used planes, Eurostar trains, cars, and motorcoaches to get from the United Kingdom to Disneyland in Paris.

They measured their blood pressure rates at various points in the journey and came to the conclusion that using a coach is, in fact, the least stressful experience. They believe that coach passengers are more relaxed than users of other modes of transport.

The research was carried out by travel magazine TTG and Leger Holidays, a British tour company.

One travel Website thought it surprising that the quicker air travel was not considered the most comfortable and least stressful. However, air travel turned out to be the second most stressful way of traveling.

This coincides with other surveys in the United Kingdom which have indicated that 77 percent of passengers feel stressed, rushed or worried at airports, especially those travelers with children and retired individuals.

These surveys also found that many airline passengers have obsessive tendencies, such as checking travel documents at least four times before take off. Fifty-seven percent of passengers admitted being worried about missing a flight or being late.

Using privately-owned vehicles was third place on the stress travel list, while the gold medal for stressless traveling went to the motorcoach.

"It is rather logical as waiting times are rare, passengers tend to sleep and changing is also rare. Thus, for relaxing and carefree journeys, the coach seems to be the way forward," reported the travel Website, www.tourism-review.com.