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Home-based Telecommuting and Cities: A Synthetic Literature Review and a Framework for Future Research

김승남 1 Kun-Hyuck Ahn 1

1서울대학교

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ABSTRACT

Advances in information and communication technology have made telecommuting a viable option for more and more workers over time. Therefore, several studies have been made on the impacts of telecommuting on urban form and travel behavior in the planning research field. Against this backdrop, this research synthetically examines the theoretical background and empirical evidences focused on the two main issues: 1) the relationship between home-based telecommuting and urban form, and 2) the relationship between home-based telecommuting and travel demand. Our literature review indicates that even though many researches have been made on telecommuting impacts, little is known about the causalities between home-based telecommuting and residential location, and the secondary impacts of home-based telecommuting on travel behaviors via residential location. Moreover, previous empirical studies have not consider the job locations of telecommuters. Therefore, this paper suggests the Structural Equation Model, which embodies the causal relationships among the telecommuting, residential location, job location, and daily Person Kilometers Traveled(PMT) variables, for the framework for future research. We expect that this conceptual model will be able to be applied in the future empirical studies focused on Korean cities.

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