Introduction Urbanization in most countries has over time resulted in the creation of cities, whose inhabitants set up central locations where trading and business happens and set them apart from the residential areas, where they retire to after a day’s work. The business districts usually have shopping malls and arcades as well as offices, from where various types of goods and services can be accessed. In order to access these particular areas, individuals have to commute from the residential areas using either public transport or personal means. This daily commute ends up creating lengths of traffic jams as individuals travel to the business districts to either sell or purchase goods and services. This had been the common trend of business until a few years ago when the internet emerged. In its advent, systems have been developed to help connect the consumers of goods and services with the primary providers, without having them leave their residence. Companies such as eBay and Amazon have enabled producers of commodities to set up warehouses in remote areas and then display their products online for consumers to buy. Customers pay through online payment facilities such as PayPal and the goods are delivered to them. When it comes to provision of services, some careers such as print journalism allow individuals to work from remote areas, and then submit their work over the internet. These platforms for trading have reduced the need for everybody to travel to one central location in order to access or provide goods and services, ultimately reducing the number of commuters on the roads. This report seeks to provide a concrete explanation of the ways that e-commerce has helped reduce traffic congestion in urban areas, hence making life in such regions easy for inhabitants. The report shall principally focus on the elements of e-commerce in relation to commuter-life in cities. Any other ways in which e-commerce has helped improve city life that are not related to traffic, shall be left out because they will be out of the scope of the current discussion. Core concepts E-commerce: How e-commerce works E-commerce fundamentally works the same way that traditional businesses do, but with the elimination of expansive physical business spaces. This has been affirmed by Krisdiany that “the greatest and the most important benefit of e-commerce is that it enables a business concern or individual to reach the global market” (Krisdiany, 2001, p. 4). In the simplest form of e-commerce, the merchants of goods and services display their products on a website, outlining the price of each product. The customer, from any part of the world, visits the websites and identifies the product on sale. He then chooses the ones that impress him and adds them to a digital cart. The customer then completes the payment using either a credit card or any other online payment system. The customer then delivers the product to the customer, using whichever shipping method is acceptable. The rise of e-Commerce “Electronic commerce is a rapidly growing area enjoying considerable attention in conjunction with the emergence of the Information Superhighway or the building of the National Information Infrastructure (