commute times
Daily journey lengths
Commute times are the durations people spend traveling between home and work.
The phrase appears constantly in discussions of urban planning, real estate, and quality of life: Commute times in the metro area average forty-five minutes each way.
Long commute times factor heavily into housing decisions and job satisfaction.
- rush hourBusiest commuting period
- peak hoursBusiest usage times
- morning rushEarly day congestion
- trafficMovement along routes
- bumper to bumperVehicles nearly touching ahead/behind
congestion · subway · train · packed train · delay · gridlock · carpool · public transit · highway · morning · evening · packed · crowded · standing · platform · transfer · late · early
- neighborhood factorswalkability, public transit, crime rate, school district, cost of living
- suburbiasuburb, suburbs, suburbia, burbs, subdivision
- transportation issuestraffic congestion, traffic jams, congestion, gridlock, road safety
- traffic studiestraffic volume, traffic flow, traffic patterns, traffic density, peak hours
- transport metricsridership, passenger capacity, occupancy rate, average speed, delays
- demographicspopulation density, population growth, age distribution, population, gender ratio
work arrangement
commute timesremote work
Employment from afar
working from home · telecommuting · home office · staying put
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