THE TRAVEL AND EMISSIONS IMPACTS OF TELECOMMUTING FOR THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA TELECOMMUTING PILOT PROJECT
The impacts of home-based telecommuting on travel behavior and personal vehicle emissions for participants in the State of California Telecommuting Pilot Project are analyzed using the most advanced emissions modeling tools currently available. A comparison of participants' telecommuting day travel behavior with their before-telecommuting behavior shows a 27 percent reduction in the number of personal vehicle trips, a 77 percent decrease in vehicle-miles traveled (VMT), and 39 percent (and 4 percent) decreases in the number of cold (and hot) engine starts. An analysis of the number of personal vehicle trips and VMT partitioned into commute-related and non-commute-related purposes revealed that non-commute personal vehicle trips increased by 0.5 trips per person-day on average, whereas the non-commute VMT decreased by 5.3 miles. This important finding supports (for one indicator, the number of trips) the hypothesis that non-commute travel generation is a potential negative impact of telecommuting.
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Authors:
- Koenig, B E
- Henderson, D K
- Mokhtarian, P L
- Publication Date: 1996-2
Language
- English
Media Info
- Pagination: p. 13-32
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Serial:
- Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies
- Volume: 4
- Issue Number: 1
- Publisher: Elsevier
- ISSN: 0968-090X
- Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/0968090X
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Pilot studies; Pollutants; Telecommuting; Travel behavior; Vehicle miles of travel
- Geographic Terms: California
- Old TRIS Terms: Pilot study
- Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Vehicles and Equipment; I96: Vehicle Operating Costs;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00723336
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS, ATRI
- Created Date: Jul 26 1996 12:00AM