We’ve built so much sprawl that it’s difficult to make an efficient transport system that makes the types of trips that people now want to make.

Everyone chooses where to put homes and workplaces with transportation in mind.

In the UK people who commute by rail commute an average of 235 miles per year. [0]

I’ve had commutes of 150 miles per day. (Or 30,000+ miles per year) although that’s on the high end of what Americans might do.

The typical commute for people in my last office job was 30-50 miles per day. About 10,000 miles per year. About 1-2% of the people in our office lived in the same town as the office. This is in a top-50 metropolitan area of the US.

[0]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/466097/average-distance-...