TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM MANAGEMENT ACTIONS: IMPLICATIONS OF FLEXIBLE WORK HOURS

Strategies to reduce peaking in urban transportation through work rescheduling are a promising element of Transportation System Management (TSM). To date most discussions of work-schedule management have focused on work staggering and the four-day week. This report explores the merit of flexible or variable work hours as a traffic management strategy. It concludes that flextime is compatible with programs that seek to increase bus ridership and carpooling. Flextime also appears promising as a strategy of congestion relief. These conclusions are based on a survey of almost 500 employees of a California State agency which recently adopted flexible work hours. The report also offers an analysis of the peaking characteristics of travel to and from the San Francisco Central Business District.

• Corporate Authors:

  University of California, Berkeley

  Institute of Transportation Studies Library
  Berkeley, CA  United States  94720

  Research and Special Programs Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Jones, D W
  • Nakamoto, T
  • Cilliers, M P
• Publication Date: 1978-12

Media Info

• Pagination: 66 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bus transit; Carpools; Central business districts; Employment; Management; Public transit; Ridesharing; Scheduling; Staggered work hours; Transportation operations; Transportation system management; Travel; Urban areas; Urban transportation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Systems management; Transportation management
• Old TRIS Terms: Bus transportation (Intracity); Central city
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00191438
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: DOTRSPA/DPB-50/78/29Final Rpt., UCB-ITS-RR-78-4
• Contract Numbers: DOT-OS-50237
• Files: NTIS, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: May 26 1981 12:00AM