Researchers have questioned whether the ability to telecommute is encouraging workers to relocate to more desirable residences farther from work, and in doing so, exacerbate sprawl and increase their net vehicle-miles traveled. The research presented here directly asks, is telecommuting a “friend or foe” of travel-reducing policies? Given that telecommuters tend to have longer commutes than non...

Realization of satisfaction in residential environments is shaped by several factors; one of these factors is the economic elements of the city. Economic indicators, along with other factors such as physical, cultural, social, etc., is effective on the inhabitants’ assess of their place of residence and it is introduced as one of the effective factors on the motivations of households to move fr...

Recently, a growing body of literature has focused on the role daily mobility subjective well-being (SWB). What is less well understood temporal effect commuting SWB/life satisfaction. To date, most studies addressing this consider impact residential relocation and not many reflect workplace (WPR) behaviour, satisfaction SWB. This surprising considering that changes at destination trip (i.e. wo...

Residential self-selection studies argue that pre-existing travel-related attitude overshadows the role of changes in residential built environment (re)shaping travel behaviours. Our study contributes to this argument by including family- and job-related life events as another source, accounting for reverse causality from opposed attitude-induced self-selection. Using a two-wave sample 1,038 Du...

In November 1994 methyl parathion (MP), a restricted agricultural pesticide, was discovered to have been illegally sprayed within hundreds of residences in Lorain County, Ohio. Surface levels and air concentrations of MP revealed detectable levels of the pesticide 3 years after spraying. Because of the high toxicity of MP (lethal dose to 50% of rats tested [LD50] = 15 mg/kg) and long half-life ...