Applicability of Staggered Work Hours for Urban Traffic: Case of Guangzhou

Staggered Work Hours is one of the important measures of traffic demand management. The motivation and basic principles are analyzed. Implementation of Staggered Work Hours should satisfy three basic conditions: first, there exists obvious peak period of travel demand; second, the flow of road traffic or public transport also has significant peaks; and third, during the peak period, either road traffic or public transport is very crowded. As an example, the traffic applicability of Staggered Work Hours in the City of Guangzhou is analyzed through relevant statistics and surveys. Peak period of travel demand is obvious, and bus and metro are both crowded during the peak hours. But on the contrary, the variation of road flow and speed is not obvious in the downtown area, where traffic operations are under a high load condition during daytime. Other characteristics, such as travel distance and time changes of residents, spatial distribution of traffic congestion, and the occupational structure are also considered. In the end, a conclusion is made that in the short term, Staggered Work Hours will have a positive impact on the public transport condition, but bring little improvement on the road condition. It is suggested that measures of Staggered Work Hours can be implemented initially within a small scope of residents, and gradually adjusted according to the effects.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1061/41184(419)67
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Copyright © 2011 ASCE
• Corporate Authors:

  American Society of Civil Engineers

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  Reston, VA  United States  20191-4400
• Authors:
  • Huang, Lin
  • Li, Jun
• Conference:
  • Third International Conference on Transportation Engineering (ICTE)
  • Location: Chengdu , China
  • Date: 2011-7-23 to 2011-7-25
• Publication Date: 2011

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 404-409
• Monograph Title: ICTE 2011

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Feasibility analysis; Staggered work hours; Traffic congestion; Traffic control; Travel demand management; Urban transportation
• Geographic Terms: Guangzhou (China)
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01447847
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9780784411841
• Files: TRIS, ASCE
• Created Date: Oct 1 2012 9:20AM