Comment 102707

By KevinLove (registered) | Posted June 19, 2014 at 20:21:06 in reply to Comment 102703

Ryan wrote: "If you turn down a better job because it's too hard to get there and accept a job to which you are less well-suited, your productivity is lower than it could be."

Kevin's comment: The converse is also true. An employer's business productivity is lower than it could be if the pool of employees is reduced because potential employees cannot get to that workplace.

In other words, the employer has to hire the second-best employee because the best one cannot get to that workplace.

A good match between employer and employee benefits both sides.

One measure of excellence for a transportation system is the percentage of people that use it by travelling daily. This most vividly demonstrates itself in the excellent transportation network in The Netherlands. Out of all the EU countries, "Holland has, at 92%, the highest percentage of the total population traveling daily."

One key success factor for The Netherlands is the excellent cycling infrastructure which has resulted in 27% of all trips being by bicycle and more women cycling than men.

If people are not travelling daily, that means they are not travelling to places such as workplaces. Not good for the economy!

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