MetroCommutesR Documentation

Commute Times

Description

Commute times for four cities

Format

A data frame with 2000 observations on the following 3 variables.

City

Boston, Houston, Minneapolis, or Washington

Distance

Distance of commute (in miles)

Time

Time of commute (in minutes)

Details

The data are distances (miles) and times (minutes) of daily commute (one-way) for random samples of 500 commuters in each of four cities (Boston, Houston, Minneapolis, Washington) in 2007. The random samples were taken from the Metropolitan Public Use File of the 2007 American Housing Survey

Source

2007 American Housing Survey https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/ahs/data/2007/ahs-2007-public-use-file–puf-.html