Commute weeks
Each square is one week of a 40-year working life. Orange is time spent on the road.
Open week
Lost to commute
Denmark (compare)
Egypt (compare)
Assumptions: round-trip = 2× one-way · 230 workdays/year · 40 career years · a “lost week” = 40 hours of commute time. Denmark ~17 min (reported country average). Egypt ~47.75 min one-way (Numbeo). Lab toy — not a traffic study.