"I consider average travel speed to be a critical metric by which to judge society", is an interesting take on this. I'm curious as to what aspects of a societ

"I consider average travel speed to be a critical metric by which to judge society", is an interesting take on this. I'm curious as to what aspects of a society it's measuring, what those metrics tell you about a society (e.g. it's values) and what sort of society you'd get by optimising for them or (just being contrary) trying to minimise them. I mention this as the first thing that came to mind when I saw the title was the 15-minute city concept [1]: "A 15-minute city is a residential urban concept in which most daily necessities can be accomplished by either walking or cycling from residents' homes." "15-minute cities are built from a series of 5-minute neighborhoods, also known as complete communities or walkable neighborhoods". "the 15-minute city concept as a way to ensure that urban residents can fulfill six essential functions within a 15-minute walk or bike from their dwellings: living, working, commerce, healthcare, education and entertainment." I say this as someone who used to regularly commute over 1hour in each direction to work (London) and know of people who used to do closer to 2hours. This would have been massively sub-optimal (by a number of metrics) if I hadn't of spent a lot of evenings in london socialising, seeing gigs or doing courses/events etc. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15-minute_city https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15-minute_city