a number of humans have requested what inspired us to put in writing a booklet approximately commut­ ing, whatever that all of us do yet over which now we have little or no regulate. in fact, the overall response from specialist colleagues and pals alike was once first a type of realizing smile via a few tale. every body has a narrative a few own commuting event. even if it was once an issue with a not on time bus, a overdue arrival, broken-down autos, sizzling trains or subways, in past times 12 months we've got heard all of it. a lot of those tales has to be apocryphal simply because, in the event that they have been all precise, it's notable that any one ever arrived at paintings on time, at domestic, or at another vacation spot. The curiosity for us most likely stems from many elements that through the years have most likely stimulated our pondering. the entire authors studied and/or grew up within the ny urban metropolitan region. For representation, let's dedicate a number of paragraphs to describing a few of the senior author's (Koslowsky's) lifestyles reviews. As a tender guy in big apple urban, he used to be a relentless person of the hot York urban subway process. the full community was once and nonetheless is sort of striking. for a comparatively small sum, one could spend the total day and evening in an underground international (growing up in ny frequently makes one imagine that the full international is contained in its 5 boroughs).