LETTER
A Note on Commute Times and Average Income Levels
Ahren Johnston1, *
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2019Volume: 13
First Page: 151
Last Page: 153
Publisher ID: TOTJ-13-151
DOI: 10.2174/1874447801913010151
Article History:
Received Date: 30/09/2019Revision Received Date: 27/08/2019
Acceptance Date: 18/09/2019
Electronic publication date: 30/09/2019
Collection year: 2019
open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode). This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
In this paper, the relationship between average commute time and average wage in a population center is investigated. The goal of this research is to determine whether there is a positive relationship between average commute time and wages as economic theory would suggest. While this theory has been investigated to some extent in the past, the results of such studies have been limited to one or a few large metropolitan areas. The results of this study show that there is a positive relationship between the two. These results imply that businesses undergoing network design or redesign decisions should consider commute time in prospective metropolitan areas as part of their location decisions and could save money by choosing an area with shorter commute time.