I am a professional Urban Planner and Designer. I treat this as my thought laboratory exploring how bionomics relate to self-organizing, emergent urbanism.
As a professional urban designer and partner of the Planning and Design Firm Space Between Design Studio, I am a trained urbanist who specializes in creating walkable urban developments and analyzing existing places to find the barriers preventing livable, walkable urbanism. I can be reached at patrick [at] spacebtw.com
Of the cities shown, only Seattle reduced "time wasted," which I'm assuming equates to the difference between rush hour commute times and regular commute times.
"The American love affair with the car...it's an awful lot like Stockholm Syndrome." ~ Me. In the Sixties the philosopher Ivan Illich showed that the amount of energy invested into cars and road infrastructure would be sufficient to cover the distance by foot - and in a considerably more beautiful and peaceful environment.