This paper draws upon a series of studies that have been undertaken in Minnesota to better understand the implications for home-based online activities relating to work (e.g. telecommuting) and community activities (e.g. distance education). Three waves of data collection activities were conducted: a survey of telecommuters in public and private organizations, a series of follow-on indepth inte...

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Development of technology has made possible the invention of innovative and modern methods to solve partially the problems caused by traffic congestion, through decreasing the need for physical transportation; one such method being telecommuting. Few predictions have been reported regarding its aggregate demand at the level of a city, generally because of the complexity and multi-dimensionality...

This literature review has been prepared to synthesize and assess previous large-scale evaluations of telecommuting. First, a conceptual framework is proposed to organize the inputs and outputs of a macro-scale telecommuting benefit-cost analysis. Then, four federal and regional reports are examined in terms of methodology, assumptions, economic approach, and major findings. This review identif...

We analyze a 2002 survey of Southern California residents to evaluate the relative importance of factors that affect workers’ propensity to telecommute and telecommuting frequency. The survey collected a wealth of individual demographic information as well as job type, industry, and employer characteristics from about 5,000 residents. In agreement with previous studies, we find that the propens...

Telecommuting creates a host of opportunities and challenges for managers and workers. Based on the results of a 26 semi-structured interviews, we explore individual’s motives underlying the decision to telecommute. In addition, our purpose was to investigate and understand the advantages and disadvantages of telecommuting from the worker’s perspective. References to advantages, disadvantages a...

In the standard urban model, employment is concentrated in the Central Business District (CBD) and the locational choice of households is modeled solely on access to the employment center. Now, technology has facilitated the emergence of new office environments where work is done at unconventional locations that were earlier in the CBD. While the urban density function is not really new, in thi...

This paper addresses inter-agent interactions, an issue that has received little attention in travel behavior research. Drawing upon the economic theory of externalities and the sociological paradigm of social networks, we develop a discrete choice model that incorporates elements of social influence in addition to more conventional factors such as the attributes of alternatives and the charact...

This paper begins to operationalize a previously published conceptual model of the individual decision to telecommute. Using survey data from 628 employees of the City of San Diego, hypothesized drives to telecommute and constraints on / facilitators of telecommuting are measured. A binary logit model of the preference to telecommute from home is estimated, having a p 2 of 0.68. The explanatory...