Impact of Telecommuting on Residential Relocation and Residential Preferences: Latent Class Modeling Approach

The advance of ICT has changed travelers? appreciation of travel time in various ways. In the context of telecommuting, ICT increasingly allows us to work from home one or more days per week. One hypothesis that has been put forward is than since ICT reduces the frequency of commuting, it allows workers to accept longer commute distances, implying that telecommuters have a different valuation of travel time than regular commuters and would also favor more peripheral residential locations. The question can be raised, however, whether telecommuters can be regarded as a homogeneous group with respect to their valuation of travel time and residential preferences. To investigate the heterogeneity of commuters' and telecommuters' preferences, latent class discrete choice models were estimated of the relocation probability and the choice of residential environment. The results suggest that telecommuting is not a factor to identify segments with different residential preferences. However, within the group of telecommuters, two different classes can be identified, which can be characterized as being sensitive and insensitive to commute distance.

• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

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• Authors:
  • Ettema, Dick
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 87th Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC, United States
  • Date: 2008-1-13 to 2008-1-17
• Date: 2008

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: DVD
• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: 26p
• Monograph Title: TRB 87th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers DVD

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Choice models; Commuters; Heterogeneity; Residential location; Telecommuting; Travel surveys; Travel time; Travelers
• Subject Areas: Highways; Passenger Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01099826
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 08-1070
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: May 22 2008 7:41AM