Does telecommuting promote sustainable travel and physical activity?

Chakrabarti, Sandip

doi:10.1016/j.jth.2018.03.008

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“…On the contrary, part-day telecommuters engage in maintenance and out-of-home shopping errands for a longer duration. Lachapelle et al (2018) and Chakrabarti (2018) responded to the question on whether telecommuting has a positive effect on sustainable travel outcomes. After analyzing the 2005 Canadian General Social Survey, Lachapelle et al (2018) found that different types of telework arrangements have different impacts on increasing active travel and reducing traffic congestion.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As compared to working in the office, working from home only is found to be associated with less overall travel time by an average of 13 min. Chakrabarti (2018) analyzed the 2009 NHTS data and found that telecommuting frequency can significantly promote active travel and physical activity. Individuals who telecommute more than four times per month are more likely to make at least one transit trip per month compared to non-telecommuters.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…For telecommuters, there exists a significant reduction in driving on telework days. However, the annual driving distance for telecommuters is usually longer than that for non-telecommuters ( Chakrabarti, 2018 ). Research findings in North America support that, if implemented appropriately, telecommuting programs can positively influence the process of moving away from automobile dependency to sustainable alternatives.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Synergistic and threshold effects of telework and residential location choice on travel time allocation

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“…Another highly researched consequence is the traffic decrease on the national roads [31,56,57]. Moreover, Chakrabarti [58] shows that telework (on average, at least once a week) is associated with a 15% increase of walking in the time span of a week.…”

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Sustainable Social and Individual Implications of Telework: A New Insight into the Romanian Labor Market

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This research aims to evaluate the individual and social implications of telework, along with the foreseeable permanent result that could be generated. Consistent with this objective, a survey has been carried out on a sample of 1180 Romanian employees, on which a model has been developed, based on structural equation modelling. The model includes five latent variables, on the one hand targeting telework features and on the other hand, its possible effects on individuals and society. At an individual level, the study results emphasize that telework could contribute to a better work–life balance and could also help teleworkers to develop specific teleworking abilities. At a social level, telework could generate sustainable effects targeting the long-term management of the work force and providing solutions to potential problems at local community levels. The managerial implications of this study are directed toward the need to implement a series of sustainable human resource management strategies and efficient employee training and development programs. Moreover, organizations need to be more proactive in assuming corporate social responsibilities.

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“…One form of backfire is the current use by long-distance workers to reduce the overall amount of time they spend travelling, rather than achieving this outcome by reducing travel distances and without resort to remote working. As one interviewee questioned: For instance, it has been shown that telecommuting in the US is associated with an overall switch from motorised transport to physically active transport on the days when workers telecommute, but that their overall annual driving is greater on average -the frequency of teleworking days did not seem to offset the longer commute-distances of teleworkers (Chakrabarti, 2018; see also e Silva & Melo, 2018). Another form of backfire can occur at the household level, where a telecommuting 'head of the household' permits others in the household use of the car, actually increasing overall driven distance at the household level (Kim, Choo & Mokhtarian, 2015) but there is not always evidence for this, (Melo & e Silva, 2017).…”

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User decision-making in transitions to electrified, autonomous, shared or reduced mobility

Whittle

Whitmarsh

Haggar

et al. 2019

Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment

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Mobility affords a range of benefits, but there are environmental, social and economic problems associated with current transport systems. Innovations to address these issues include novel technologies (e.g., electric and autonomous vehicles; EVs, AVs), and new business models and social practices (e.g., shared mobility). Yet, far more attention by policy-makers and researchers has been paid to the technical aspects of a low-carbon mobility transition than to social or psychological aspects, or the role of the user. In this paper, we integrate insights from the multi-level perspective on transitions and socio-psychological literature and draw on transport expert interview (N=11) data, to examine (a) what influences current attitudes and behaviours in respect of EVs and AVs, and shared mobility, and (b) how this may change in the years to come. We argue that technological change may be most compatible with the transport regime (dominated by personal car-based mobility) but potentially affords a narrower range of sustainability benefits, while mobility substitution (e.g., reducing the need to travel through tele-working or -shopping) may be most challenging for both policy-makers and publics, while potentially addressing a wider range of sustainability problems associated with the transport regime. Shared mobility options sit somewhere in between and challenge certain aspects of the regime (e.g., status associated with car ownership) while offering certain environmental, social and economic benefits. For all three areas of innovation, policy interventions need to address the needs, preferences, experiences and identities of users if they are to be effective and sustainable.2 KeywordsLow-carbon mobility, transition, multi-level perspective, psychology, decision-making Highlights-We provide a psychologically-informed discussion of the transition to low-carbon mobility.-Our analysis highlights nuances in the interaction between individuals and infrastructures, and how 'lock-in' is experienced in different ways.-Users fulfil important social as well as economic functions in innovation processes.-Social and psychological factors (identity, emotions, etc.), as well as physical environment and infrastructures, constrain and foster innovation. AcknowledgementsThe review on which this article is based was funded by the UK Government Office of Science's Foresight Future of Mobility Programme. We gratefully acknowledge the time provided by interviewees to participate in the research, as well as the helpful comments of reviewers in improving the manuscript.3

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Does telecommuting promote sustainable travel and physical activity?

Cited by 66 publications

References 27 publications

Synergistic and threshold effects of telework and residential location choice on travel time allocation

Synergistic and threshold effects of telework and residential location choice on travel time allocation

Sustainable Social and Individual Implications of Telework: A New Insight into the Romanian Labor Market

User decision-making in transitions to electrified, autonomous, shared or reduced mobility

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