Letting just 10% of total commuters work at home one day or even a half day per week would have a dramatic effect on congestion.
Even if the number of train riders is only a fraction of total commuters -- and a blip by New York or Chicago standards -- the volume has exceeded expectations by about 50percentt.
However, it is also worth highlighting that, whilst this represents a significant amount of data in terms of local authority pairs, when considered in terms of total volume of commuters it is much less significant: less than 25% of total commuters travel on these low intensity routes.
Recent statistics show that out of San Francisco's total commuters within the city, bikes made up 4.4percentt of trips in 2014.
Cincinnati, too, has felt a 350% increase, but both cities are struggling to push the percentage of total bike commuters above 1%.
Despite the equivalent of the entire population of Pittsburgh using ferries every day, that represents just a tiny percentage of Istanbul's overall commuter total; the majority use metrobuses that run on dedicated highway lanes.
First, because the available ridership data only provides the total number of commuters exiting a station, an assumption was needed about the portion of commuters who are municipal employees.
A total of 51 commuters were aboard for the first two trips, putting on brave faces and rain-slicked coats, and carrying umbrellas.
Since carpooling can often accomplish the same feat, we measured a city's commuting efficiency by adding the number of people who carpool, those who take public transit and those who walk to work, and divided the sum by the city's total number of commuters, based on Census Bureau figures.
