{"id":1869,"date":"2019-09-19T15:42:32","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T15:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/?p=1869"},"modified":"2019-09-19T15:42:34","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T15:42:34","slug":"the-ideal-work-commute-will-make-you-happier-and-healthier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/2019\/09\/19\/the-ideal-work-commute-will-make-you-happier-and-healthier\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ideal Work Commute Will Make You Happier and Healthier"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Andrew Merle, <em>Huffpost<\/em>, Sep 11, 2017 <br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/the-ideal-work-commute-will-make-you-happier-and-healthier_b_59b6ca67e4b0bb893fffffd9\">https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/the-ideal-work-commute-will-make-you-happier-and-healthier_b_59b6ca67e4b0bb893fffffd9<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Americans spend more than 100 hours per year commuting to work, which is more than the two weeks of vacation (80 hours) that most workers take annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People have an average one-way drive time of about 25.5 minutes in the U.S., and more than 600,000 American workers have \u2018megacommutes\u2019 of at least 90 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just think about all of the unpaid hours workers are spending getting to and from their workplace (not to mention the generally unproductive use of that time).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To make matters worse, research has shown that there is a direct link between commute time and well-being\u200a\u2014\u200aPeople with the longest commutes have the lowest overall satisfaction with life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Driving is by far the most stressful way to commute, but unfortunately also the most common. People who take public transit (5.2%), walk (2.8%), or bike to work (0.6%) still make up a very small percentage of total workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More people should choose one of these \u2018active\u2019 modes of commuting to increase health and happiness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even those who take public transportation report that the most enjoyable part of their commute is the walk to and from the train or bus. Studies show that an active commute may be as important to well-being as marriage or a pay raise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Boiling it all down, <em>the very best commute you can have is a 15-minute walk each way<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article highlights the effects that a commute has on overall happiness. One challenge here is how can we reduce the time it takes to reach that last mile destination on campus for commuters. In the future plans, parking will be pushed outward to the edges of campus and driving on campus will be less common. There is an opportunity to provide adequate transit to support the new patterns of movement that will arise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1869","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-science-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1869"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1871,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869\/revisions\/1871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}