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2022-12-01T22:20:26	created document flagged group hidden id links permissions tags target text updated uri user user_info 2022-12-01T22:20:26.080261+00:00 title It’s True: The Typical Car Is Parked 95 Percent of the Time false __world__ false WvwqSHHGEe2XoPtDtpjTlw html incontext json https://hypothes.is/a/WvwqSHHGEe2XoPtDtpjTlw https://hyp.is/WvwqSHHGEe2XoPtDtpjTlw/usa.streetsblog.org/2016/03/10/its-true-the-typical-car-is-parked-95-percent-of-the-time/ https://hypothes.is/api/annotations/WvwqSHHGEe2XoPtDtpjTlw admin delete read update acct:ravenscroftj@hypothes.is acct:ravenscroftj@hypothes.is group:__world__ acct:ravenscroftj@hypothes.is solar punk selector source endContainer endOffset startContainer startOffset type /div[1]/div[1]/div[4]/div[1]/main[1]/article[1]/div[1]/div[3]/blockquote[1]/p[3] 329 /div[1]/div[1]/div[4]/div[1]/main[1]/article[1]/div[1]/div[3]/blockquote[1]/p[3] 0 RangeSelector end start type 5030 4701 TextPositionSelector exact prefix suffix type “… there are about 25 billion car trips per year, and with some 27 million cars, this suggests an average of just under 18 trips per car every week. Since the duration of the average car trip is about 20 minutes, the typical car is only on the move for 6 hours in the week: for the remaining 162 hours it is stationary – parked.” Travel Survey (NTS) (see p.23): Since there are 168 hours in a TextQuoteSelector https://usa.streetsblog.org/2016/03/10/its-true-the-typical-car-is-parked-95-percent-of-the-time/ This may be napkin maths but this is pretty shocking to think about. There must be a better way! 2022-12-01T22:20:26.080261+00:00 https://usa.streetsblog.org/2016/03/10/its-true-the-typical-car-is-parked-95-percent-of-the-time/ acct:ravenscroftj@hypothes.is display_name James Ravenscroft	https://usa.streetsblog.org/2016/03/10/its-true-the-typical-car-is-parked-95-percent-of-the-time/	solar punk hypothesis	annotation	/annotations/2022/12/01/1669933226

“… there are about 25 billion car trips per year, and with some 27 million cars, this suggests an average of just under 18 trips per car every week. Since the duration of the average car trip is about 20 minutes, the typical car is only on the move for 6 hours in the week: for the remaining 162 hours it is stationary – parked.”

This may be napkin maths but this is pretty shocking to think about. There must be a better way!