Well, I can point to some examples of this although it unfortunately won't be comprehensive.

One is that certain units of land measurement were basically consistent across regions. So the English acre is virtually the same size as the Arab feddan, because they were both calculated on the basis of how much land could be tilled in a day.

The second example would be Persian caravanserais, which were deliberately spaced about 30 miles apart, approximating a days ride in a camel train.

To quote Tim Blanning, in a passage that I think would apply for most of the pre-modern world:

According to Pierre Goubert, most peasants [in France] -- i.e. most of the population -- lived out their lives within a radius of only 4 to 5 miles...that is to say the area which encompassed their family, the weekly market, the notary and the seigneurial court and which they traversed on foot. They had been doing that in 1660, and they were still doing it in 1815.

Blanning also notes that the benefits in improved road travel in this period, especially in Britain with its turnpike systems, were limited:

...the main beneficiaries were country gentlemen, who could now travel up to London much more rapidly and comfortably, to sit in Parliament, where they could pass more Turnpike Acs.

The consequent reduction in travel times from the periphery to London from 1700 to 1800 was pretty extraordinary. Travel from Exeter to London was reduced from 240 hours to 32. From Edinburgh 256 to 60.

But I think I'm safe in saying that with the exception of these kinds of long-distance traders or country gentlemen "commuters" going back and forth from periphery to metropole, that actually the concept of a daily commute basically didn't exist for most of the population. You might walk or cart that distance to a weekly market, but otherwise you lived where you worked-- as a peasant, on a farm.