Reverse commute

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A reverse commute is a round trip, regularly taken, from a metropolitan area to a suburban one in the morning, and returning in the evening. It is almost universally applied to the trip to work in the suburbs from home in the city. This is on opposition to the regular commute, where a person lives in the suburbs and travels to work in the city.

A person who regularly undertakes a reverse commute is a reverse commuter.

The reverse commuter is travelling in the opposite direction to the regular daily population flow, so encounters none of the traffic and congestion problems faced by regular commuters. However, the very reasons commuting is economical (such as higher employment in the city and lower housing prices in the suburbs) operate against the reverse commuter, so such people are relatively rare.