The Quiet Success: Telecommuting's Impact on Transportation and Beyond

This paper offers many reasons to telecommute; discusses the impact of telecommuting on rush hour traffic, air quality, highway safety, medicine, opportunities for the physically handicapped, driving, and public transit ridership; and describes the barriers to telecommuting that exist today. The barriers fall into the categories of public policy, perception, and technology.

• Record URL:
  http://www.reason.org/ps338.pdf
• Corporate Authors:

  Reason Foundation

  3415 S Sepulveda Boulevard, Suite 400
  Los Angeles, CA  United States  90034
• Authors:
  • Balaker, Ted
• Publication Date: 2005-11

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 63p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air quality; Attitudes; Driving; Highway safety; Impacts; Medicine; Peak hour traffic; Persons with disabilities; Policy; Public transit; Ridership; Technology; Telecommuting; Work trips
• Uncontrolled Terms: Barriers (Challenges); Opportunities
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Public Transportation; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01042447
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: Policy Study 338
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 13 2007 5:34PM