Commute

Flooding due to sea level rise has added an average of 23 minutes to the time people in the coastal US spend commuting over the course of a year. By 2060, even a modest amount of additional sea level rise could increase that delay 10-fold, amounting to billions of hours of wasted time.

“It’s here. It’s now, it’s a delay that is already occurring,” says Mathew Hauer at Florida State University. He and his colleagues have looked at census data representing 74 million actual commuting routes in more than 200 counties on or near the US coasts. They used a traffic model to calculate normal commute times.They then calculated how tidal flooding changed these times, using tidal gauge readings taken between 2002 and 2017 to model levels of inundation and an algorithm to account for commuters rerouting to drive around flooded areas.
–New Scientist