This would be enough for 90
percent of your commute - slash - therapy situations.
Amsterdam ranked number one as the most bike - friendly city as 40
percent of all commutes are done on bike.
Currently, about 18.1
percent of commuting in Beijing is done by bike (that's down from 30.3 percent in 2005) and the Municipal Commission of Transport plans to increase the percentage back up to 20 percent in the next three years.
Not exact matches
Time spent traveling continues to increase with
commute times in 50
of the largest U.S. cities jumping by 3
percent between 2009 and 2014 and the average
commute jumping 20
percent since 1980.
In a study that looked at U.S. regions where at least 80
percent of workers
commute, Goldman found uneven results: Improving labor markets and declines in mortgage delinquency, but not enough to translate to substantial retail spending gains on a national level.
After all, as Richard Florida reported last year, the Census Bureau finds that 86
percent of U.S. workers still
commute by car and more than 75
percent do so alone.
A January study
of more than 2,000 adults in the United States by Clarizen and Harris Poll discovered some employees would much rather watch paint dry (17
percent),
commute four hours (12
percent) or endure a root canal (8
percent) than attend a boring meeting.
In San Francisco during the morning
commute, 10
percent of UberPool trips are to or from the Bay Area Rapid Transit train.
VANCOUVER — A New Democrat government will get Metro Vancouver commuters moving again by increasing the provincial share
of capital funding for public transportation improvements to 40
percent, clearing the way to shorter
commutes and thousands
of new construction jobs over the next 10 years.
In fact, according to information from Global Workplace Analytics, 92
percent of employees were concerned with the high cost
of fuel, and 80
percent specifically cited the cost
of commuting to work.
Of those who streamed during their
commute, 12
percent said that they had gotten so immersed in the show or movie that they missed their stop.
What they found is that in most
of these districts less than 4
percent of the drivers would be driving into the congestion pricing zone, and in other parts it was still a single - digit percentage
of drivers
commuting into the congestion pricing zone.
Only 4
percent of the residents
of Queens, the Bronx, Brooklyn or Staten Island, about 118,000 people,
commute to Manhattan in vehicles, the task force says.
The study shows that only a small fraction
of people living in the outer boroughs
of New York City would find their
commutes affected by the toll: four
percent of the working people who live in the outer boroughs, and two
percent of working poor.
Advocates say failing bus service is not just an issue
of commuting, but also
of equity — bus riders earn about 30
percent less than their subway counterparts, according to the city comptroller's office, and tend to be primarily immigrants and minorities.
And in Hudson, the increase
of commuters to NYC was even more prevalent, as approximately 375
percent more residents
commuted to NYC in 2011 as compared to 2002.
In Sveikauskas» analysis
of where Kingston residents
commuted to work, he found that there was nearly a 50
percent increase
of workers who
commuted outside
of Ulster County and a 50
percent increase
of Kingston residents who worked within the five boroughs
of New York City.
But despite these advantages, most people still
commute by car — according to the researchers, more than 90
percent of Americans drive a car to work.
The National Geographic Society's annual Greendex analysis
of global consumption habits finds that Americans are least likely
of all people to use public transportation — only seven
percent make use
of transit options for daily
commuting.
Fifty
percent of all citizens
commute by bike, and barely anyone actually owns a car.
According to a Brandon - Hall study, the average eLearner will spend 40 to 60
percent less time learning the same material compared to someone studying in a traditional classroom setting: When you calculate the time you save by not having to
commute, as well as time saved by avoiding other potential distractions that you'd have experienced in a traditional classroom, it becomes clear that one
of the biggest advantages
of eLearning is that it saves you time.
Of the approximately sixty thousand under - $ 15 / hour - workers who
commute to the District, 63
percent come from the Maryland counties closest to D.C., especially Prince George's county.
Seventy five
percent of today's college students are juggling some combination
of work, school, and family while
commuting to class.
BC: You do trade off, [but] we doubled the all - electric range to 22 miles, which covers
commutes for more than 50
percent of U.S. consumers.
Over the course
of a week
of commuting, I'd wager that almost 80 -
percent of my nearly 300 test miles were logged with the Cadillac's computer in control.
Based on data generated by more than 23,000 MyFord ® Mobile plug - in hybrid customers over several years, Ford estimates the 2019 Fusion Energi will potentially allow up to 80
percent of plug - in customers to drive their typical daily
commute on electricity alone, with the support
of both home and workplace charging, assuming the vehicle is fully charged daily at home and at work.
In normal
commuting, the A45 AMG is driven primarily by its front wheels, but in more dynamic driving it sends up to 50
percent of the drive to the rear wheels for added traction.
Green Car Reports praised this year's model's improvements for boosted battery life by saying, «That's a 50 -
percent increase over the previous model's 83 miles, and significantly increases the practicality
of the e-Golf for drivers with longer
commutes — or those who live in areas with winter weather.»
It's a nice reminder
of where you could go with your Wrangler, if you didn't spend 90
percent of your time on the road parked in gridlock
commuting traffic.
Have adequate and dependable income (up to 115
percent of adjusted area median income), have acceptable credit, do not own a dwelling in the local
commuting area, US Citizen or permanent resident, have the ability to personally occupy the home on a permanent basis, and do not have funds for a 20 % down payment loan plus closing and moving expenses.
Seven
percent of workers have a
commute of 100 to 124 miles while 6 % go anywhere from 125 to 199 miles one - way.
D.C. has 100 miles
of bike paths and lanes, which come to almost 17 per 100,000 residents, and its Walk Score is seventh highest in the country, at 73.2, although only 0.6
percent of workers here
commute by bike.
Of course, locals also own bikes as well; 0.8
percent commute to work that way, putting the city eighth on our list for that metric.
It's got 88 miles
of bike paths and lanes, which equal to 14.4 miles per 100,000 people, and a respectable 0.8
percent of workers
commute on their bikes.
Davis, California considers itself one
of the most bike - friendly cities in America, Car
commuting has definitely increased in this small but growing city that encircles UC Davis, yet the city boasted according to a Streetfilms report, around 18
percent of bike
commuting «mode share» back in 2007.
There are currently around 130 million total commuters, so that means we're still doing better at bike
commuting than Will's 0.01
percent (IAC Transportation, in a 2008 report, suggested.38 %
of us, or 468,000 are bike commuters.
Texas is more sparsely populated, it has lower gasoline prices, and 2
percent of its labor force
commutes via public transportation, as compared to 5
percent in California.
Graphic: NYCDOT (PDF) Here's one indicator that's looking pretty recession - proof: New York City bike
commuting shot up 26
percent in 2009, according to data released today by the Department
of Transportation.
Between 2000 and 2014, the share
of Americans who
commute via bike grew by 62
percent, but there...
CEO Henrik Fisker, who previously designed sports cars such as the Aston Martin DB9, said the Fisker Karma can drive the first 50 miles with no gasoline or emissions — enough to get more than 60
percent of Americans and Europeans through their daily
commutes.
When 95
percent of a city's workers depend on cars for
commuting, as in Atlanta, Georgia, the city is in trouble.
According to the League
of American Bicyclists,
commuting by bicycle has increased 389
percent in Chicago between 1990 and 2013.
Eighty
percent of Worcester's residents
commute by car.
Public transportation: The U.S. Census Bureau says that the majority
of riders in Jacksonville who
commute to work by public transportation are white (about 29
percent), Hispanic (about 9
percent) and black (about 58
percent).
A Consumer Reports survey
of U.S. motorcycles and scooters found that bike owners ride an average
of 1,000 miles per year — 82
percent of those miles for recreation and 38
percent for
commuting.
There is a median
commute to work
of 20 minutes, with 8.4
percent of commuters needing to drive over 45 minutes to get to work.
69
percent of residents choose to
commute in private vehicles.
The X4 lasted through three days
of use on standby and only used up 16
percent of its capacity during the three - hour morning
commute time, where I'm typically using the phone to listen to music, check up on Twitter, and respond to emails for at least a full hour and a half
of screen - on time.
If you have more than an hour
commute to work and back, is it worth more than 8
percent of your day?
Recognizing that more than a third
of university faculty nationally has a spouse or partner who also works in academia, and another 36
percent have a partner employed outside
of higher education, a new tri-state regional section
of the national Higher Education Recruitment Consortium (HERC) will help dual - career couples find job openings within reasonable
commuting distances
of one another.