Do Higher Gas Prices Mean More Mobile Productivity?
Web analytics trend service Compete is out with their latest report today comparing the change in gas prices with the change in Web traffic to sites related to public transportation. To build the report, Compete took the top 50 sites in the “Bus and Train” category and the average gas price for the week and compared the change over time. This report is only based on U.S. Web traffic and gas prices. It’s pretty interesting to watch how directly correlated the two are. Yet as author Connor Caldwell notes, it seems like Americans are getting more comfortable with higher gas prices. Are people (worldwide) more productive on public transportation than in their cars? The simple answer is yes but what this additional productivity means is that when a person arrives home, they perhaps have more time to spend with family and friends and not working because the normal after-dinner work was completed on the subway, train or bus. With more mobile devices offering real connectivity to the Internet,
