2009: My year in travel

At the end of 2008 I calculated the total amount of travel I had done by different modes of transport. It turned out that I had travelled almost the circumference of Mars. I decided to repeat this exercise for the International Year of Astronomy 2009. In 2009 I travelled an equivalent to 87% of the way around the Earth (34735 km). The rough breakdown is shown below.

2009 travel
My travel during 2009 broken down by form of transport. I travelled roughly 87% of the circumference of the Earth. CREDIT: Stuart.
I travelled further by all modes of transport during 2009. The biggest percentage rise was in train travel (9700 compared to 3910 km in 2008) as I managed to replace a few flights with trains. I also travelled some way by boat this year due to a holiday in Norfolk.

All in all, I failed in my attempt to cut down my travel and particularly my flights. On a positive note, I reduced the fractional amount travelled by plane.

My average speed for 2009 was 1.1 m/s or equivalent to a slow walking pace.

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Posted in astro blog by Stuart on Sunday 03rd Jan 2010 (18:03 GMT) | 2 Comments | Permalink

Comments: 2009: My year in travel

Hi...I too am in travel, tours, holidays and transportation business, I am an expat though working for a Coach Company here in London UK that provides coach hire, minibus hire and limo hire service, sometime I need to go to the airports, be it London airports or any other airports across Europe for airport pickup and airport transfer service

and When I think about number of miles, I actually come with the same algebra in your mind :)....

Posted by Coach Hire on Monday 18th Jan 2010 (12:47 UTC)

This blog is an interesting one. Keep sharing these kind of things. Keep it up. Thanks for this.

Posted by John on Thursday 23rd Dec 2010 (04:57 UTC)

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