Job accessibility under the influence of information and communication technologies, in the Netherlands

Muhammad, Saim; Jong, Tom de; Ottens, Henk

doi:10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2007.05.005

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“…Early interest in the effect of telecommuting on commuting distance and household travel was mainly aimed at establishing whether telecommuting could be an effective policy instrument to alleviate congestion and emissions associated with car use (Salomon 1985;Nilles 1991;Lund and Mokhtarian 1994). Increasingly, attention is being given to the notion that telecommuting also affects the geography of labour markets, for example, by having a positive effect on job accessibility (Muhammad et al 2008;Van Wee et al 2013). Understanding the relationship between telecommuting and the length of the commute may thus both inform policies aimed at alleviating congestion and transport-related emissions, and policies that aim to improve the economic performance of cities and regions.…”

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Working from home and the willingness to accept a longer commute

2018

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It is generally found that workers are more inclined to accept a job that is located farther away from home if they have the ability to work from home one day a week or more (telecommuting). Such findings inform us about the effectiveness of telecommuting policies that try to alleviate congestion and transport-related emissions, but they also stress that the geography of labour markets is changing due to information technology. We argue that estimates of the effect of working from home on commuting time may be biased because of sorting based on residential-and commuting preferences. In this paper we investigate the relationship between telecommuting and commuting time, controlling for preference-based sorting. We use 7 waves of data from the Dutch Labour Supply Panel and show that on average telecommuters have higher marginal cost of one-way commuting time, compared to non-telecommuters. We estimate the effect of telecommuting on commuting time using a fixed effects approach, and we show that preference-based sorting biases cross-sectional results upwards. This suggests that the bias due to sorting based on residential preferences is strongest. Working from home allows people to accept 5% longer commuting times on average, and every additional 8 h of working from home are associated with 3.5% longer commuting times. JEL Classification R11 • R41 • J32 B Duco de Vos

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“…More recently the area of research has expanded and accessibility has been studied through several perspectives. Examples of this are the concepts of potential travel or motility (De De Vos et al, 2013;Nordbakke and Schwanen, 2014), travel as a mean of interaction (Halden, 2011), or the notion of reachability (Muhammad et al, 2008). However, in operationalizing these theories and concepts, solely measures of objective accessibility have been used.…”

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Development and test of the Perceived Accessibility Scale (PAC) in public transport

Lättman

Olsson

Friman

2016

Journal of Transport Geography

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“…Any attempt to draw conclusions on the accessibility to individual regions or sites based on automobile movement as reflected in traffic volume on traffic routes connecting the settlements in a voivodship or country would be an exaggeration. Nonetheless, one may along with [9] assume that accessibility influences to a large extent the volume of traffic and as such constitutes an incentive for journeys. Therefore, it may be indirectly concluded that traffic volume on road sections leading to given destinations reflects at least the potential for reaching a given location by a defined number of vehicles.…”

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The use of modern information technology in research on transport accessibility

Bartosiewicz

Wiśniewski

2017

Transport Problems

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Summary. Transport accessibility can be analyzed using a number of different methods. The problem with each of them is the difficulty of obtaining data to measure this phenomenonThe focus of this article and its main goal are to present methods and tools for gathering data on road traffic; thanks to modern information technology, it is possible to collect real data without the need for large-scale and highly capital-intensive measurements.The application of modern information technology (IT) presented in the article, such as computer programs and applications like Google Maps Traffic Overlay and TomTom Live Traffic, enable research to be conducted on a scale that has thus far been unattainable, and allows information to be collected on such criteria as traffic volume, flow, average traffic speed, and actual journey time. Such innovative means of gathering data on automobile traffic open up new perspectives for assessing transport accessibility in terms of automobile traffic by providing high-quality data that meet the requirements for use in primary research. ZASTOSOWANIE NOWOCZESNYCH TECHNOLOGII INFORMACYJNYCH W BADANIU DOSTĘPNOŚCI TRANSPORTOWEJStreszczenie. Dostępność transportowa może być analizowana z zastosowaniem różnych metod. Podstawowym problemem wszystkich wyróżnianych metod jest brak danych, które pozwalają na pomiar tego zjawiska.Istotę niniejszego artykułu i jednocześnie jego cel główny stanowi zaprezentowanie autorskiej metody i narzędzia gromadzenia danych na temat ruchu drogowego, które dzięki zastosowaniu przez autorów nowoczesnych technologii informacyjnych umożliwiają gromadzenie rzeczywistych danych bez potrzeby prowadzenia zakrojonych na dużą skalę i wielce kapitałochłonnych pomiarów.Zastosowanie nowoczesnych technologii informacyjnych zaprezentowane w niniejszym artykule w postaci autorskiego programu komputerowego oraz aplikacji Google MapsTraffic Overlay pozwala na rzeczywisty pomiar dostępności transportowej w skali, która dotychczas nie była możliwa. Podejście to pozwala na wykorzystanie danych uzyskiwanych w czasie rzeczywistym, takich jak: wielkość i natężenie ruchu, średnia prędkość przemieszczania oraz czas podróży.

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Job accessibility under the influence of information and communication technologies, in the Netherlands

Cited by 34 publications

References 27 publications

Working from home and the willingness to accept a longer commute

Working from home and the willingness to accept a longer commute

Development and test of the Perceived Accessibility Scale (PAC) in public transport

The use of modern information technology in research on transport accessibility

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