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This feels like a tautology - commute times are close to 30 minutes because on average people have lived about 30 minutes from where they work for thousands of
by stevenwoo 7y ago
This feels like a tautology - commute times are close to 30 minutes because on average people have lived about 30 minutes from where they work for thousands of years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marchetti%27s_constant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marchetti%27s_constant
https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2019/08/commute-time-city-size-transportation-urban-planning-history/597055/ https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2019/08/commute-time-...
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- Retric 7y agoYou say that yet both Portugal and Italy have an average one way commute of ~15 minutes. So, clearly 30 minutes is far from any real natural custom. At best you can say commute times are going to some limited fraction of the day as people need to sleep, commute, and work in the same day.