TRANSPORTATION IMPACTS OF CENTER-BASED TELECOMMUTING: INTERIM FINDINGS FROM THE NEIGHBORHOOD TELECENTERS PROJECT
The transportation impacts of center-based telecommuting for 24 participants (representing 69 person-days of travel and 295 trips) in the California Neighborhood Telecenters Project are analyzed. Comparing non-telecommuting (NTC) day to telecommuting (TC) day travel shows that person-trips did not change significantly, whereas vehicle-trips increased significantly (by about one trip) on TC days. Both PMT and VMT decline significantly on TC days: by an average of 68 miles (74 percent) and 38 miles (65 percent), respectively. When these savings are weighted by the frequency of telecommuting, overall reductions in PMT and VMT come to 19 percent and 17 percent, respectively, of total weekday travel. Commute trips increase slightly (by 0.5 trips) but significantly, mainly due to lunch-time trips made home from the telecenter. Commute mode split on NTC days is not affected by telecommuting. Travel on TC days tends to be compressed into fewer hours.
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Corporate Authors:
Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
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Authors:
- Balepur, P N
- VARMA, K V
- Mokhtarian, P L
- Publication Date: 1998-8
Language
- English
Media Info
- Features: Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: p. 287-306
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Serial:
- Transportation (Netherlands)
- Volume: 25
- Issue Number: 3
- Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
- ISSN: 0049-4488
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Measures of central tendency; Neighborhoods; Telecommuting; Travel demand management; Trip purpose
- Geographic Terms: California
- Old TRIS Terms: Centers
- Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Railroads; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00754786
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS, ATRI
- Created Date: Oct 8 1998 12:00AM