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Marchetti's constant: a standalone construct

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Transport studies

the observation that people spend a fairly stable average of about an hour a day travelling, across eras and transport modes.

In transport studies, Marchetti's constant refers to the observation that people spend a fairly stable average of about an hour a day travelling, across eras and transport modes. This meaning comes from Marchetti (1994) in Technological Forecasting and Social Change.[1]

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References

Marchetti, C. (1994). Anthropological invariants in travel behavior. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 47(1), 75-88. https://doi.org/10.1016/0040-1625(94)90041-8

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