skalt/commute-calculator

A single-page app to compare apartments' commute times.

How Much Is Your Commute Worth?

Choosing where to live is a delicate balance of rent, roommates, amenities, and commute. This is a tool put hard numbers on how much commute time a location will cost you.

How this helps

This application selects candidate home locations and commute destinations, from work to the gym to cool-looking cafes and restaurants. The application then uses the Mapzen time-distance API to grab the commute times via specified modes of transport at specified times of day. The application finally compares weighted sums of commute time (+ cost) for each candidate home location.

Using this saves you re-re-re-searching the commute times for each apartment you consider.

Prior art

• Trulia's commute map
• Mapbox's time map
• Mapbox's isochrone plugin
• Mapzen's APIs, which power this application
  • Time-distance
  • isochrones
• the saying "time is money"
• Discussing distances in terms of time (at least in the US)