I think the average commute in the U.S. is 26 minutes:

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Traffic/story?id=485098&page=1

According to the Census Bureau, NY's commute is the longest on average:
http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/american_community_survey_acs/001695.html

I'd like to see a comparison with other cities in the rest of the world too.

>>>What's the frequency of buses in your area? Apart from NYC, I still haven't seen a schedule which would keep them going more often than one per hour - maybe two at rush hour.
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>>I think they're pretty frequent in other big cities, too. Depends on the route. Here's the schedule for a bus that runs the down one of Philadelphia's major streets:
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>>http://www.septa.com/service/sched/c_wk.html
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>>Less than 10 minutes apart at rush hour, up to about 15 in off hours.
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>Well, much better than Orlando - it took me 90 minutes and three buses to get from Maitland to the airport, with a lot of planning, had to print several pages of the schedule (and then skipped a line when jumping from page to page, so I was late for the flight - but the good guy there got me into another flight and I eventually got home 15 minutes earlier than planned :).
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>It would be interesting to know the statistics across the cities of the world, how many miles traveled per capita per diem, how many lines, or something like that.