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Company incentives and tools for promoting telecommuting
KTH.
2006 (English)In: Environment and Behavior, ISSN 0013-9165, E-ISSN 1552-390X, Vol. 38, no 4, p. 521-549Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The aim of this article is to identify company and employee benefits from telecommuting. Telecommuting implies that a large proportion of the company's office space is unoccupied. To use this efficiently, flexible offices could be introduced in which the employees do not have their own office but use any desk in an open office space. In addition, if telecommuting implies reductions in office space in which employees donate the use of their homes - rent free - to the employer, it is quite fair for the employer to consider returning some of that savings to the telecommuters in compensation for the use of their homes. The results indicate that employees are in fact sensitive to the monetary compensation and that company benefits could be obtained.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2006. Vol. 38, no 4, p. 521-549
Keywords [en]
Telecommuting, Employee, Incentive (reward), Household
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Civil Engineering Work Sciences
Research subject
10 Road: Transport, society, policy and planning
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URN: urn:nbn:se:vti:diva-12403DOI: 10.1177/0013916505283422ISI: 000238357300005Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-33744480284OAI: oai:DiVA.org:vti-12403DiVA, id: diva2:1139116
Available from: 2017-09-06 Created: 2017-09-06 Last updated: 2025-09-11Bibliographically approved
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1. Issues in Urban Travel Demand Modelling: ICT Implications and Trip timing choice
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Issues in Urban Travel Demand Modelling: ICT Implications and Trip timing choice
2006 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

Travel demand forecasting is essential for many decisions, such as infrastructure investments and policy measures. Traditionally travel demand modelling has considered trip frequency, mode, destination and route choice. This thesis considers two other choice dimensions, hypothesised to have implications for travel demand forecasting. The first part investigates how the increased possibilities to overcome space that ICT (information and communication technology) provides, can be integrated in travel demand forecasting models. We find that possibilities of modelling substitution effects are limited, irrespective of data source and modelling approach. Telecommuting explains, however, a very small part of variation in work trip frequency. It is therefore not urgent to include effects from telecommuting in travel demand forecasting. The results indicate that telecommuting is a privilege for certain groups of employees, and we therefore expect that negative attitudes from management, job suitability and lack of equipment are important obstacles. We find also that company benefits can be obtained from telecommuting. No evidences that telecommuting gives rise to urban sprawl is, however, found. Hence, there is ground for promoting telecommuting from a societal, individual and company perspective.

The second part develops a departure time choice model in a mixed logit framework. This model explains how travellers trade-off travel time, travel time variability, monetary and scheduling costs, when choosing departure time. We explicitly account for correlation in unobserved heterogeneity over repeated SP choices, which was fundamental for accurate estimation of the substitution pattern. Temporal constraints at destination are found to mainly restrict late arrival. Constraints at origin mainly restrict early departure. Sensitivity to travel time uncertainty depends on trip type and intended arrival time. Given appropriate input data and a calibrated dynamic assignment model, the model can be applied to forecast peak-spreading effects in congested networks. Combined stated preference (SP) and revealed preference (RP) data is used, which has provided an opportunity to compare observed and stated behaviour. Such analysis has previously not been carried out and indicates that there are systematic differences in RP and SP data.

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Stockholm: Kungliga Tekniska högskolan, 2006. p. 44
Keywords
Journey, Mathematical model, Origin (traffic), Time, Telecommuting, Journey time, Variability, Stated preference, Delay
National Category
Civil Engineering
Research subject
10 Road: Transport, society, policy and planning, 11 Road: Personal transport
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:vti:diva-12099 (URN)91-85539-04-X (ISBN)
Public defence
2006-09-29, M3, Maskinteknik, KTH, 10:00
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