Does telecommuting reduce vehicle-miles traveled? An aggregate time series analysis for the U.S

Transportation

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 37-64

  Choo, Sangho ^a   Mokhtarian, Patricia L ^a   Salomon, Ilan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Aggregate analysis; Telecommuting; Teleworking; Time series analysis; Vehicle miles traveled modeling forecasting

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; PEOPLE MOVERS; TELECOMMUTING; TRANSPORTATION;

PUBLIC SECTOR; PUBLIC TRANSIT RIDERSHIP; VEHICLE-MILES TRAVELED (VMT);

TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; TELECOMMUTING; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 11244256607     PISSN: 00494488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11116-004-3046-7     Document Type: Article

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