Every served destination is local, thanks to the logarithmic increase in transport speeds across each class of travel.
Even really long flights - like LHR-HKG, which is 12 hours - can feel local, when you consider that it may depart at 10pm and you could sleep for the entire journey; “unproductive travel time” (defined as time when you could have been awake doing something useful) is what counts.
I would say an additional measure may be the number of changes required to complete a journey. Changing is extremely unproductive and each change makes the entire journey unproductive (for shorter journeys) or adds hours of unproductive travel time (for longer journeys).
Even really long flights - like LHR-HKG, which is 12 hours - can feel local, when you consider that it may depart at 10pm and you could sleep for the entire journey; “unproductive travel time” (defined as time when you could have been awake doing something useful) is what counts.
I would say an additional measure may be the number of changes required to complete a journey. Changing is extremely unproductive and each change makes the entire journey unproductive (for shorter journeys) or adds hours of unproductive travel time (for longer journeys).
