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Article: Metropolitan size and the impacts of telecommuting on personal travel
Title | Metropolitan size and the impacts of telecommuting on personal travel |
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Keywords | Commute Complement Non-work trips Personal travel Substitute Telecommuting |
Issue Date | 2018 |
Publisher | Springer New York LLC. The Journal's web site is located at http://springerlink.metapress.com/openurl.asp?genre=journal&issn=0049-4488 |
Citation | Transportation, 2018, v. 45 n. 2, p. 385-414 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Telecommuting has been proposed by policy makers as a strategy to reduce travel and emissions. In studying the metropolitan size impact of telecommuting on personal travel, this paper addresses two questions: (1) whether telecommuting is consistently a substitute or complement to travel across different MSA sizes; and (2) whether the impact of telecommuting is higher in larger MSAs where telecommuting programs and policies have been more widely adopted. Data from the 2001 and 2009 National Household Travel Surveys are used. Through a series of tests that address two possible empirical biases, we find that telecommuting consistently had a complementary effect on one-way commute trips, daily total work trips and daily total non-work trips across different MSA sizes in both 2001 and 2009. The findings suggest that policies that promote telecommuting may indeed increase, rather than decrease, people’s travel demand, regardless of the size of the MSA. This seems to contradict what telecommuting policies are designed for. In addition, model results show that the complementary impact of telecommuting on daily travel is lower in larger MSAs, in terms of both daily total work trips and daily total non-work trips. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/261164 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 3.5 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 1.363 |
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dc.contributor.author | Zhu, P | - |
dc.contributor.author | Wang, L | - |
dc.contributor.author | Jiang, Y | - |
dc.contributor.author | Zhou, J | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-09-14T08:53:32Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2018-09-14T08:53:32Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2018 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Transportation, 2018, v. 45 n. 2, p. 385-414 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0049-4488 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/261164 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Telecommuting has been proposed by policy makers as a strategy to reduce travel and emissions. In studying the metropolitan size impact of telecommuting on personal travel, this paper addresses two questions: (1) whether telecommuting is consistently a substitute or complement to travel across different MSA sizes; and (2) whether the impact of telecommuting is higher in larger MSAs where telecommuting programs and policies have been more widely adopted. Data from the 2001 and 2009 National Household Travel Surveys are used. Through a series of tests that address two possible empirical biases, we find that telecommuting consistently had a complementary effect on one-way commute trips, daily total work trips and daily total non-work trips across different MSA sizes in both 2001 and 2009. The findings suggest that policies that promote telecommuting may indeed increase, rather than decrease, people’s travel demand, regardless of the size of the MSA. This seems to contradict what telecommuting policies are designed for. In addition, model results show that the complementary impact of telecommuting on daily travel is lower in larger MSAs, in terms of both daily total work trips and daily total non-work trips. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Springer New York LLC. The Journal's web site is located at http://springerlink.metapress.com/openurl.asp?genre=journal&issn=0049-4488 | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Transportation | - |
dc.subject | Commute | - |
dc.subject | Complement | - |
dc.subject | Non-work trips | - |
dc.subject | Personal travel | - |
dc.subject | Substitute | - |
dc.subject | Telecommuting | - |
dc.title | Metropolitan size and the impacts of telecommuting on personal travel | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.email | Zhu, P: brianzhu@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.email | Zhou, J: zhoujp@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Zhu, P=rp02242 | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Zhou, J=rp02236 | - |
dc.description.nature | postprint | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1007/s11116-017-9846-3 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85040041749 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 291036 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 45 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 2 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 385 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 414 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000429486000007 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United States | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0049-4488 | - |