Transportation impacts of center-based telecommuting: interim findings from the Neighborhood Telecenters project

摘要

The transportation impact of center-based telecommuting for 24 participants(repre- senting 69 person-days of travel and 295 trips)in the California Neighborhood Telecenters Project are analyze. Comparing non-telecommuting(NTC)day to telecommuting(TC)day travel shows that person-trips did not change significantly, whereas vehicle-trips increased significantly (by about one trip)on TC days. Both PMT and VMT decline significant on TC days: by an average of 68 miles(74/100) and 38 miles(65/100), respectively. when these saving are weighted by the frequency of telecommuting, overall reductions in PMT and VMT come to 19/100 and 17/100, respectively, of total weekday travel.