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Title:

ENERGY CONSERVATION POTENTIAL OF STAGGERED WORK HOURS

Accession Number:

00371331

Record Type:

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Order URL: http://worldcat.org/isbn/0309033748

Abstract:

Research was performed to evaluate the potential of staggered work hours to reduce work-trip fuel consumption and to evaluate the relation between the size and location of the participating work force and the level of fuel savings. The spatial organization of a hypothetical urban area was generated by using data from the literature and a computer simulation program designed to distribute population and employment activities throughout the urban area. By using this distribution and a defined transportation network, the program then generated the work-trip travel pattern and computed the transportation fuel requirements for automobile work trips and daily transit service. A base case was generated and used as the basis for comparison of the alternative policies. Several alternative temporal distributions of work travel were used to simulate the effect of staggered-work-hour programs. Tests were designed to determine the effect on the reduction in fuel consumption of the magnitude and location of the work force participating in the staggered-work-hour programs. The simulation results indicated that staggered-work-hour programs can significantly reduce automobile work-trip gasoline consumption. The effectiveness of the staggered-work-hour policies was shown to be influenced by both the number of participants in the program and the distribution of the participants throughout the urban area. The reduction in fuel consumption increased with the number of participating work travelers. The reduction also increased as the locations of the participating employment centers became more dispersed throughout the urban area. The staggered-work-hour programs also showed a strong negative influence on work-trip bus ridership. (Author)

Supplemental Notes:

Publication of this paper sponsored by Committee on Energy Conservation and Transportation Demand. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.

Monograph Accession #:

00380410

Report/Paper Numbers:

HS-035 228

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Witkowski, James M
Taylor, William C

Pagination:

pp 1-9

Publication Date:

1982

Serial:

Transportation Research Record

Issue Number: 870
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
ISSN: 0361-1981

Conference:

61st Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board

Location: Washington District of Columbia, United States
Date: 1982-1-18 to 1982-1-22

ISBN:

0309033748

Media Type:

Print

Features:

Figures (10) ; References (12)

Old TRIS Terms:

Subject Areas:

Economics; Energy; Environment; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society; I10: Economics and Administration

Files:

HSL, TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Mar 31 1983 12:00AM

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