Commuting is the practice of travel

Commuting is the practice of travelling a long distance to a town or city to work each day and then travelling home again in the evening . The word commuting come from communication ticket , a US rail ticket for repeated journeys , called a season ticket in Britain . Regular travellers are called commuters .
The Us has many commuters . A few , mostly on the East Coast , commute by train or subway , but most depend on the car . Some leave home very early to avoid the traffic jams , and sleep in their car until their office opens . Many people accept a long trip to work so that they can live in quite bedroom communities away from the city , but another reason is “ white flight “ . In 1960s most cities began to desegregate their schools , so that there were no longer separate schools for white and black children . Many white families did not want to send their children desegregated schools , so they moved to suburbs , which have their own schools , and where , for various reasons , few black people live.
Millions of people in Britain commute by car or train . Some spend two or three hours a day travelling , so that they and their families can live in suburbia or in the countryside . Cities are surrounded by commuter belts . Part of the commuter belt around London is called the stockbroker belt because it contains houses where rich business people live . Some places are becoming dormitory towns because people sleep there but take little part in local activities .
Most commuters travel to and from work at the same time , causing the morning and evening rush hours , when buses and trains are crowded and there are traffic jams on the roads . Commuters on trains rarely talk to each other and spend their money reading , sleeping or using their mobile phones , though this is not popular with other passengers . Increasing numbers of peopla now work at home some days of the week , linked to their offices by computer , a practice called telecommuting .
Cities in both Britain and the US are trying to reduce the number of cars coming into town each day . Some companies encourage car pooling ( called car sharing in Britain ) , an arrangement for people who live and work near each other to travel together . Some US cities have a public service that helps such people to contact each other , and traffic lanes are reserved for car-pool vehicles . But cars and petrol/gas are cheap in the US , and many people prefer to drive alone because it gives them more freedom . In Britain many cities have park-and-ride schemes , car parks on the edge of the city from which buses take drivers into the centre .