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    Marchetti's constant

    Updated October 14, 2018

    Marchetti's constant is the average time spent commuting: 1 hr.

    Marchetti posits that this holds across mode of transportation, culture, region, time. The context only changes the distance, not the time that people are willing to travel.

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