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.
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Corporate Authors:
Reason Foundation
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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