Modeling the Choice of Tele-work and its Effects on Travel Behaviour in Indian context

Information and communication technology (ICT) empowers people with virtual accessibility to a wide range of activities reducing physical travel and traffic congestion. Since 1990, accessibility to ICT technologies, along with a drop in internet tariffs and prices of various devices like computers and mobile phones, has brought about a transformation of the activity travel behavior of Indian employees. This paper analyzes the choice of tele-work and its effects on the travel behavior in Indian context through the disaggregated data collected from Bangalore, considering all potentially influencing variables on tele-work. The study covered employees who work from home either for a few days in a week or occasionally. The analysis was carried out in two stages. In the first stage, a preliminary exploration of the data was carried out to assess the presence of the tele-work scenario in the Indian context with respect to the worker's individual-and household-related characteristics. Secondly, the frequency of tele-work was modeled with the conventional variables of socio-demographic and transport-related characteristics. This research will be continued to quantify the benefits of tele-work in terms of vehicle miles traveled, savings in time and fuel consumption. The ultimate aim would be to convey to the policy-makers the strategic advantage of adopting tele-work as an alternative traffic management scheme for Indian cities.

• Publication year

  2013

• Venue

  Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences

• Publication date

  2013-12-02

• Fields of study

  Engineering, Business, Economics

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/J.SBSPRO.2013.11.149
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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