Definition
Duration of commute to and from work or an educational establishment, using any types of modes.
Parameter

Tcom: Average commuting travel time [minutes/day]
Touti: Commuting time to work/school by person i [minutes/day]
Treturni: Commuting time to home by person i [minutes/day]
n: number of persons in survey
Data sources
Information needed | Possible specific sources | Costs* | Advice to fill data gaps and/ or improve data quality |
Number of people in the survey | The number of surveyed people should be a known data. | L | - |
For each person in the survey:
mode or combination of modes | The source of data for this indicator is today mainly coming from existing household mobility or transport surveys done by local authorities or national office of statistics. This means that for smaller cities, there is a risk for this data not to be available. | M |
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* The column “Costs” provides a qualitative assessment of the budget (staff costs, time, costs for data acquisition, etc.) needed by a city/ urban area for gathering new quantitative data in absence of already available values. For each parameter, the assessment takes into account both the administrative costs and the costs related to searching, acquisition and processing of the needed data; these can be high (“H”), medium (“M”) or low (“L”), or a combination of a pair of them.
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