TELECOMMUTING - A POSSIBLE TRANSPORT SUBSTITUTE

This article investigates the possibility of reducing home to work journeys by telecommuting. An attempt is made to assess (1) its economic feasibility, (2) the technological base required to make it feasible, and (3) its acceptability to the people who would use the system. The economics of telecommuting were investigated by examining the feasibility of operating the regional administrative office of a national insurance company in a dispersed manner. Analysis of the communications requirements of the employees showed that they could be relocated in several sites nearer their homes. Computer terminals connected by telephone lines were adequate to transmit information between the sites. The savings associated with the dispersion were then calculated. To assess the acceptability of the system, the attitudinal aspects of communications used by participants in the interactive instructional television systems at the University of Stanford and the University of Southern California were studied. The survey results indicated a high degree of acceptance of the system. /TRRL/

• Corporate Authors:

  University of British Columbia, Vancouver

  Faculty of Commerce
  Vancouver, British Columbia  Canada 
• Authors:
  • NILLES, J M
  • GRAY, P
• Publication Date: 1975

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 185-192
• Serial:
  • LOGISTICS AND TRANSPORTATION REVIEW
  • Volume: 11
  • Issue Number: 2

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Attitudes; Benefit cost analysis; Chemical reduction; Commuters; Costs; Feasibility analysis; Information processing; Public opinion; Telecommunications; Telephone; Work trips
• Uncontrolled Terms: Decreases
• Geographic Terms: United States
• Old TRIS Terms: Reduction
• ITRD Terms: 2267: Attitude (psychol); 224: Cost; 226: Cost benefit analysis; 9009: Decrease; 8122: USA
• Subject Areas: Finance; Highways; Passenger Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; Research; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00134232
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 4 1976 12:00AM