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.
My travel during 2009 broken down by form of transport. I travelled roughly 87% of the circumference of the Earth. CREDIT: Stuart.
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.
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)