traveltime

Commute clock measurement

Travel time is the duration of a journey from one place to another: What's the travel time from Boston to New York by train?

In technical contexts—seismology, traffic engineering, telecommunications—it measures how long a signal or wave takes to traverse a distance.

Usually written as two words; the solid compound appears mainly in specialized literature.

commute

rush hour

Busiest commuting period

evening commute · peak hours · gridlock · delays · carpool · public transit · subway · bus route · train schedule · highway

planning

itinerary

Planned sequence of destinations

transfer · routing · distance · departure · arrival · timetable · booking · reservation · flight duration · navigation

measurement

hours

Sixty-minute spans

average speed · distance · tracking · estimate · prediction · algorithm · Google Maps · Waze · historical data · window

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measurement dimension

traveltimedistance

Space between two points

travel distance · mileage · displacement · kilometers · miles

motion vs. stillness

traveltimedwell time

Duration spent somewhere

wait time · idle time · layover time · downtime · hold time

Family

travel, time, travels, traveled, travelling, traveling, traveler, traveller, travelers

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