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The impact of working from home on modal commuting choice response during COVID-19: Implications for two metropolitan areas in Australia
The need to recognise and account for the influence of working from home on commuting activity has never been so real as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Not only does this change the performance of the transport network, it also means that the way in which transport modellers and planners use mod...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8608599/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34840440 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2021.11.011 |
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author | Hensher, David A. Balbontin, Camila Beck, Matthew J. Wei, Edward |
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description | The need to recognise and account for the influence of working from home on commuting activity has never been so real as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Not only does this change the performance of the transport network, it also means that the way in which transport modellers and planners use models estimated on a typical weekday of travel and expand it up to the week and the year must be questioned and appropriately revised to adjust for the quantum of working from home. Although teleworking is not a new phenomenon, what is new is the ferocity by which it has been imposed on individuals throughout the world, and the expectation that working from home is no longer a temporary phenomenon but one that is likely to continue to some non-marginal extent given its acceptance and revealed preferences from both many employees and employ where working from home makes good sense. This paper formalises the relationship between working from home and commuting by day of the week and time of day for two large metropolitan areas in Australia, Brisbane and Sydney, using a mixed logit choice model, identifying the influences on such choices together with a mapping model between the probability of working from home and socioeconomic and other contextual influences that are commonly used in strategic transport models to predict demand for various modes by location. The findings, based on Wave 3 (approximately 6 months from the initial outbreak of the pandemic) of an ongoing data collection exercise, provide the first formal evidence for Australia in enabling transport planners to adjust their predicted modal shares and overall modal travel activity for the presence of working from home. |
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spelling | pubmed-86085992021-11-23 The impact of working from home on modal commuting choice response during COVID-19: Implications for two metropolitan areas in Australia Hensher, David A. Balbontin, Camila Beck, Matthew J. Wei, Edward Transp Res Part A Policy Pract Article The need to recognise and account for the influence of working from home on commuting activity has never been so real as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Not only does this change the performance of the transport network, it also means that the way in which transport modellers and planners use models estimated on a typical weekday of travel and expand it up to the week and the year must be questioned and appropriately revised to adjust for the quantum of working from home. Although teleworking is not a new phenomenon, what is new is the ferocity by which it has been imposed on individuals throughout the world, and the expectation that working from home is no longer a temporary phenomenon but one that is likely to continue to some non-marginal extent given its acceptance and revealed preferences from both many employees and employ where working from home makes good sense. This paper formalises the relationship between working from home and commuting by day of the week and time of day for two large metropolitan areas in Australia, Brisbane and Sydney, using a mixed logit choice model, identifying the influences on such choices together with a mapping model between the probability of working from home and socioeconomic and other contextual influences that are commonly used in strategic transport models to predict demand for various modes by location. The findings, based on Wave 3 (approximately 6 months from the initial outbreak of the pandemic) of an ongoing data collection exercise, provide the first formal evidence for Australia in enabling transport planners to adjust their predicted modal shares and overall modal travel activity for the presence of working from home. Elsevier Ltd. 2022-01 2021-11-23 /pmc/articles/PMC8608599/ /pubmed/34840440 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2021.11.011 Text en © 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Hensher, David A. Balbontin, Camila Beck, Matthew J. Wei, Edward The impact of working from home on modal commuting choice response during COVID-19: Implications for two metropolitan areas in Australia |
title | The impact of working from home on modal commuting choice response during COVID-19: Implications for two metropolitan areas in Australia |
title_full | The impact of working from home on modal commuting choice response during COVID-19: Implications for two metropolitan areas in Australia |
title_fullStr | The impact of working from home on modal commuting choice response during COVID-19: Implications for two metropolitan areas in Australia |
title_full_unstemmed | The impact of working from home on modal commuting choice response during COVID-19: Implications for two metropolitan areas in Australia |
title_short | The impact of working from home on modal commuting choice response during COVID-19: Implications for two metropolitan areas in Australia |
title_sort | impact of working from home on modal commuting choice response during covid-19: implications for two metropolitan areas in australia |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8608599/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34840440 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2021.11.011 |
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