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
• 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