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Confirmatory factor analyses are used to examine the psychometric properties of the satisfaction with travel scale (STS), including tests of measurement invariance across urban areas and travel modes (car, public transport and slow modes). The data set consists of questionnaire responses from random samples of residents of Sweden’s three largest urban areas. A theoretically supported, one-factor second-order measurement model with three separate constructs received empirical support in analyses of satisfaction with daily travel in general, satisfaction with the commute to work, and satisfaction with the commute from work in the different urban areas and with different travel modes. On the three first-order factors, high loadings were as expected obtained on scales involving cognitive evaluations (e.g. “low vs. high standard”) and affective evaluations with respect to positive deactivation (e.g. “relaxed vs. stressed …