张宏科

在张宏科眼中，中国的情况则不同。他说：“在中国，人们一旦买得起汽车，就不会经常搭乘公共交通，一是因为太过拥挤，二是因为有时车站离目的地太远。”

Zhang thinks things would be different here . " In China , if someone can afford a car , they wouldn 't take public transportation that often , because it 's crowded and the stations are sometimes far from their destination , " Zhang said .

近日，北京交通大学运输工程系教授张宏科（音译）针对大城市通勤趋势进行研究，研究结果显示在一些地铁系统较发达的中国城市，半数以上的人乘坐地铁通勤，且终于大部分人都住在离单位很远的地方。

Zhang Hongke is a professor of transportation engineering at Beijing Jiaotong University . His recent study into metropolitan commuting trends shows that , in Chinese cities with a well-developed subway system , more than half of people who commute to work use the subway-and a big part of them live quite far away from their workplace .