An estimation of total vehicle travel reduction in the case of telecommuting. Detailed analyses using an activity-based modeling approach.
Year: 2011
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Transportation Demand Management (TDM) is often referred to as a strategy adopted by transport planners with the goal to increase transport system efficiency.One of the potential measures that can be adopted in TDM is the implementation of telecommuting.A significant number of studies have been conducted in the past to evaluate the effect of telecommuting on the amount of peak-period trips.However it is less studied whether telecommuting also effectively and significantly reduces total vehicle travel in terms of kilometers traveled throughout the day.For this reason, a conventional modeling approach was adopted in this paper to calculate total kilometers of travel saved in the case telecommuting would materialize in the Flanders area.In a second part, this paper introduces the use of an activity-based modeling approach to evaluate the effect of telecommuting on a more detailed time scale.As the second approach provides a more disaggregate result, both models can be compared on the more aggregate level to validate whether they correspond.
Institution: Hasselt University
Language: English
Subfield: Transportation
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2145554563