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TELECOMMUTING, TRAVEL BEHAVIOR AND RESIDENTIAL LOCATION
CHOICE: CAN TELECOMMUTING BE AN EFFECTIVE POLICY TO REDUCE
TRAVEL DEMAND?
by
Pengyu Zhu
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(POLICY, PLANNING, AND DEVELOPMENT)
August 2011
Copyright 2011 Pengyu Zhu
Object Description
| Title | Telecommuting, travel behavior and residential location choice: can telecommuting be an effective policy to reduce travel demand? |
| Author | Zhu, Pengyu |
| Author email | pengyuzh@usc.edu;pengyuzhu@boisestate.edu |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Policy, Planning and Development |
| School | School of Policy, Planning and Development |
| Date defended/completed | 2011-06-13 |
| Date submitted | 2011-08-03 |
| Date approved | 2011-08-04 |
| Restricted until | 2011-08-04 |
| Date published | 2011-08-04 |
| Advisor (committee chair) |
Gordon, Peter Painter, Gary |
| Advisor (committee member) | Hsiao, Cheng |
| Abstract | Whether telecommuting and personal travel are complements or substitutes is a key question in urban policy analysis. Urban planners and policy makers have proposed telecommuting as part of travel demand management (TDM) programs to reduce street and highway congestion. Based on small samples, several empirical studies have found that telecommuting has a substitution effect (although small) on conventional commuting, and have thus argued that policies promoting telecommuting might be promising in reducing travel. ❧ Using data from the 2001 and 2009 National Household Travel Surveys (NHTS), this study involves two large national samples to try to more accurately identify the impact of telecommuting on personal and household travel patterns. Through a series of empirical tests, this research investigates how telecommuting influences workers’ one-way commute trips, daily total work trips and daily non-work trips, how these influences differ across different MSA sizes, and how telecommuting affects household commute trips. The results of these tests suggest that telecommuting has been an important factor in shaping personal and household travel patterns over the 2001-2009 period, and that telecommuting consistently has a complementary effect on not just workers’ one-way commute trips, daily total work trips and total non-work trips, but also household total commute trips. |
| Keyword | telecommuting; travel behavior; travel demand; location choice; information technology; work trips; non-work trips |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m |
| Rights | Zhu, Pengyu |
| Access conditions | The author retains rights to his/her dissertation, thesis or other graduate work according to U.S. copyright law. Electronic access is being provided by the USC Libraries in agreement with the author, as the original true and official version of the work, but does not grant the reader permission to use the work if the desired use is covered by copyright. It is the author, as rights holder, who must provide use permission if such use is covered by copyright. The original signature page accompanying the original submission of the work to the USC Libraries is retained by the USC Libraries and a copy of it may be obtained by authorized requesters contacting the repository e-mail address given. |
| Repository name | University of Southern California Digital Library |
| Repository address | USC Digital Library, University of Southern California, University Park Campus MC 7002, 106 University Village, Los Angeles, California 90089-7002, USA |
| Repository email | cisadmin@usc.edu |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume71/etd-ZhuPengyu-247.pdf |
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| Full text | TELECOMMUTING, TRAVEL BEHAVIOR AND RESIDENTIAL LOCATION CHOICE: CAN TELECOMMUTING BE AN EFFECTIVE POLICY TO REDUCE TRAVEL DEMAND? by Pengyu Zhu A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (POLICY, PLANNING, AND DEVELOPMENT) August 2011 Copyright 2011 Pengyu Zhu |
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