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Does anyone else experience the phenomenon of perceiving the duration of a commute to be shorter when the distance is shorter? For example, it feels like it takes less time or is more enjoyable to walk 3/4 mile in 15 minutes than to travel a few miles by subway in 15 minutes. I think its because being close in proximity makes me feel like "Hey I'm basically there already" where as traveling a few miles makes me think "I'm not even in the same neighborhood yet" even though both of these take me the same amount of time.
More generally, I've noticed I tend to underestimate how much time it passes when I'm directly controlling how fast I'm going (climbing stairs, driving on an open road, reading) and overestimate it when I'm not (using an elevator, driving in congested traffic, watching a video).
Short-distance public transport is an exception: once I'm on the bus, it feels like it takes 5 minutes to get from home to the university, but it actually takes 20.