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{{short description|Periodically recurring travel between one's place of residence and place of work, or study}}
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{{Other uses|Commute (disambiguation){{!}}Commute}}
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[[File:Urban cycling III.jpg|thumb|Ring Road, Vienna, Austria, June 2005]]
[[File:NYC subway riders with their newspapers.jpg|thumb|Commuters on the [[New York City Subway]] during [[rush hour]]]]
[[File:Rush hour at Shinjuku 02.JPG|thumb|Rush hour at [[Shinjuku Station]], [[Tokyo]]]]
[[File:Trafficjam.jpg|thumb|[[Traffic congestion|Traffic jam]] in [[Baltimore]], [[Maryland]]]]

'''Commuting''' is periodically recurring [[travel]] between a place of residence and place of work or study, where the traveler, referred to as a '''commuter''', leaves the boundary of their home community.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.dictionary.com/browse/commuter|title=the definition of commuter|website=Dictionary.com|access-date=2018-02-04}}</ref> By extension, it can sometimes be any regular or often repeated travel between locations, even when not work-related. The modes of travel, time taken and distance traveled in commuting varies widely across the globe. Most people in [[least-developed countries]] continue to walk to work. The cheapest method of commuting after walking is usually [[Bicycle commuting|by bicycle]], so this is common in low-income countries but is also increasingly practised by people in wealthier countries for environmental, health, and often time reasons. In middle-income countries, motorcycle commuting is very common. 

The next technology adopted as countries develop is more dependent on location: in more populous, older cities, especially in Eurasia [[mass transit]] (rail, bus, etc.) predominates, while in smaller, younger cities, and large parts of North America and Australasia, commuting by [[personal automobile]] is more common.  A small number of very wealthy people, and those working in remote locations around the world, also [[air commuting|commute by air travel]], often for a week or more at a time rather than the more typical daily commute. Transportation links that enable commuting also impact the physical layout of cities and regions, allowing a distinction to arise between mostly-residential [[suburb]]s and the more economically focused [[urban core]] of a city (process known as [[suburban sprawl]]), but the specifics of how that distinction is realized remain drastically different between societies, with Eurasian "suburbs" often being more densely populated than North American "urban cores".