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.

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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 fewer of the road traffic congestion problems faced by regular commuters. Train and bus routes may be more sparse than for those heading into town, but the vehicles have to get back somehow for their next journey in, so it can work well. But the very reasons commuting makes sense (such as higher employment in the city and lower housing prices in the suburbs) operate against the reverse commuter, so people doing so are not common, compared to those going the other way.
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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.
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  • Reverse commute
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