How many total miles do you commute every day?
 

How many total miles do you commute every day on average?

I personally drive 41 miles a day to work and back total. However, I voted 51-75 because my wife drives the car once she drops me off. I'm sure some days its 76+.

i used to do 200+ miles per day - i did that for a little over a year. now, i've moved closer to work and it's 75-80 miles round-trip.




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I have an 8 mile round trip commute...mostly 30 mph with a little 1/4 mile 40 mph stretch.

27km to work... I used to live 11km from work and my commute took LONGER. I used to pass about 16 lights, sometimes stopping at over ten red lights and fighting heavy agressive traffic, I now only pass 2 lights and they are always green and my route is all 80km/h country roads. I now live in a different town than i work, whereas before i worked in the same town!

Last year my commute was ~80 miles/day. Then I moved and halved the distance. Then I got another job that only tacked on an additional 5 miles/day.

Now if I could just cut out the traffic, lights, and tolls...

My fiance works ~5 miles from our home. If it was me, I'd bike that every day and stop driving.

8-10 miles one way, depending on my route.

I voted 11-25 as my usual daily commute is 8 miles each way. But once per 2 weeks I have a 205 miles each way commute. So my average daily commute would be more like 54.9 miles.

51 miles here total round trip, if I go the way I usually go. But if I have to pick one of the kids up in Boyne City, its a few more miles on the home trip.

Daox -

I put 51-75. It may actually be a few miles more than 75, depending on how I adjust my route.

CarloSW2

i voted 26-50, but i'm at the very bottom of that range. my work commute is about 10 miles one way. 75% highway with a 55 mph speed limit (about half gently rolling hills, half dead-flat), and the other 25% is low traffic (when i drive it) city with about 6 stoplights. i have the option to take the highway almost all the way to work, but the speed limit increases to 65 right after my normal exit. so i stick to the slower stuff

I wish you had made a split at 40 miles so we could see what % of people here could run a Volt without gas :)

If it was one of us driving the Volt, somehow I think the range would be slightly extended ;)

It'd be kinda hard to FAS, with nothing to stop.....:confused: I do agree with you, I'm just being :p

It's about 6 miles from my apartment to school, so that's 12 miles a day, and I make 2 trips twice a week, so I figure about 15 a day.

I've a 53 mile roundtrip commute. I don't have to do that every day due to my schedule but it averages out to about 3 times a week.

I'm going to have to copy your answer. For me it's 6.1 miles each way if I take the residential back roads and 12 mile if I take the interstate. So my commute varies from 12.4 - 24 miles.

6 mile round trip.

I'm in the 0-10 group, but I really don't fit anywhere. I telecommute, only going into town for meetings (30+ mile RT) maybe once a week on average, and if the weather's nice I often bike that, so at a pinch I could handle working without a car. But my major car use is driving to various trailheads & ski places, which are often longer distance and usually involve several thousand feet elevation gain.

130-131 miles a day x 4 days a week here recently, 10 hr shifts.
my poor old truck does it like a champ/

About 140 miles/day, 5 days a week. Obviously every little MPG helps!

24 miles roundtrip - in Atlanta 'Burb traffic...
Somedays ( like today - heavy rain) - it feals like 50 miles one way..
if i leave early enough i can make it to work in 30 min.

Currently I'm at 32 miles round trip, 5 days a week. I checked the 26-50 box. My girlfriend and I have carpooled to work every day for the last 2 months or so, so my miles/day/person is 16.

I'm a consulting engineer so before two months ago (as far back as May) I was driving to a different location that was ~35 miles each way and my girlfriend was driving the same 8 miles each way everyday in her car. That's brings me down to a m/d/p of 43! yikes.

In May we moved 45 miles closer to our jobs (and bought a house!) before that we had to drive two cars; her trip was ~50 miles one way, and mine was ~80. That was our worst m/d/p average at 130!

Luckily we both had efficient cars for most of those. My girlfriend bought an 02 Civic shortly after starting her commute, while I drove an '88 Nova that did alright (32mpg with a/c), then when we moved I bought a new FIT, and I'm doing pretty well with that (~34-38).

I'm in the same boat as jamesqf: work at home; mostly use the (gas) car for recreation/travel.

So "zero" would be my answer.

130 miles a day, roughly 2400 miles a month.

2 hours each day spent in my car .... my ipod hates me ...

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11+, just barely. 5.6 miles each way. I have to drive right over a mountain. Now that it's getting cold I am getting about 22-23 mpg going in and 25-26 going home. :mad:

7mi rt. I bike it in the summer around 2 out of 5 days.

About 57 miles round trip when I get to head straight to work and back.

Usually add about 3-4 painfully slow, stop and go, and sit and idle miles on school days when I drop off 2 of our 3 kiddos(youngest rides with mama). So I try to really take it easy for the rest of the commute after I take them.

Commute, what's that?

That's when you hop into a 1 1/2 ton machine and battle traffic and the elements while spewing out carbon dioxide to get to a job so you can earn money to do things like own a 1 1/2 ton machine that exists mainly to get you and only you back and forth between your home and your job. It's the cool thing, everybody's doing it, you should give it a try!

:thumbup: Thats a great definition of commute...and really everyone should try it.:p:p:p

140 miles/day, 5 days/wk. I must be crazy LOL

mmmm, 3 miles one way for me, 1 mile for the wife. 8 miles total for the day if we just use the car for commuting. It's sad, because I can't get her to bike or walk that distance, so I either let her warm the car up for 10 minutes each morning, or I use it and it's warm when she gets to it (I work nights, she days, works well) so she doesn't let it idle.

:( no winning for me unless it's summer and 60+ outside. I hate short drives like this, it really wears the car down fast.

I just bought a house and my commute dropped from 4.5miles each way to about 3.5 miles, not a big drop but it's slightly flatter so the electric car should like it more when I get back to using it in the summer, I'm also in town now, 10 blocks from the food co-op (I also pass it on my way to work now) and most of my friends are now less then 6 blocks away (used to be 2.5 miles) with two of are now room mates who also now live closer to their jobs and friends, one now lives 3 blocks from work instead of 9 miles, the other lives 11 blocks from work instead of 2 miles, and with the use of cell phones we try to combine car trips when someone is driving, my house is also in a flatter area instead of at the highest point in town so I use my bike more.

110 miles a day @ 38-40 mph average = 3 hours a day commute time. 15 hrs a week, 60 hrs a month, 3120 hrs a year. What a waste of time...

Ryland: that's quite a change! Way to spread the better commuting love around.

When I started looking at houses I looked at where I was spending all my time that I wasn't at home or at work then told the Realtor that I wanted a place that was walking/bike friendly to that area so that I wouldn't be driving as much, it turned out that the house I liked the most was to big for just one person so after drinking some beer a friend of mine we pooled our money and bought the house together, not the right choice for everyone but it works well for us, I knew it was the right choice when she said something about getting 45mpg out of an escort station wagon, and parking facing the road so to allow coasting out of the drive way.
There is also plans for a small garden, an apple tree in the yard, at some point solar on the south side of the roof, but first things first, run electricity to the garage for the electric cars, and install a better walk thru door for bike storage.

So I actually travel about 53 miles a day of which 10 is driving my car, 2 walking, and the rest on trains. That's about 19% driving, about 4% walking, and about 77% on trains.

In prior commutes, my current car got about 34 mpg. Because my car doesn't get up to temperature in 5 miles before I shut it down, I'm averaging only about 28 mpg (shame). Despite this fact, I figure I'm using about 23% of the gas I would've been using, or about 1.2 gallons a day in savings.

Some of the trains I ride use diesel and some grid electricity, but the marginal per-seat energy consumption increase because of my ridership is pretty negligible.

As for an EBH, I can't find one that will work with my car and I've been tepid on experimenting with "whatever I can find." I'd love to build an EV if I could ever find the time.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

I hear that. My commute-time is about the same, but one of the reasons I've chosen trains this time (besides it's available to me) is that I can get up to 1.5 hours/day of that back in reading time. I've been slogging through about 2 books a month. I'm reading some pretty boring technical books these days. Othertimes I get some work on my laptop done. Oh, also, my employer pays for a monthy train pass. Eh, it's a living.

Between 50 & 60 RT commuting... It's nearly all freeway, which makes it relatively quick... I listen to podcasts or books on tape so that the time's not ALL wasted... University in the Car (or on the Motorbike), as Zig likes to say...