Is telecommuting sustainable? An alternative approach to estimating the impact of home-based telecommuting on household travel

@article{Kim2017IsTS,
  title={Is telecommuting sustainable? An alternative approach to estimating the impact of home-based telecommuting on household travel},
  author={Seung-Nam Kim},
  journal={International Journal of Sustainable Transportation},
  year={2017},
  volume={11},
  pages={72 - 85}
}
  • Seung-Nam Kim
  • Published 7 February 2017
  • Economics, Sociology
  • International Journal of Sustainable Transportation
ABSTRACT Telecommuting is regarded as a sustainable travel-demand management strategy. In investigating how much telecommuting reduces travel, studies typically adopt one method of the following three: (1) multiplying the telecommuting frequency by the round-trip commute distance, (2) measuring travel changes using quasi-experiments, and (3) determining the marginal effect of telecommuting on travel using econometric analyses. However, each approach has methodological limitations, and previous… 
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