Leslie Belton Chevallier , Anne Aguilera , Eugênia Viana Cerqueira , Eléonore Pigalle , Benjamin Motte-Baumvol
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Abstract
The recent rise of telework brings new debates on the impacts on travel behavior and transportation systems. One key issue concerns the weekly number and distribution of remote workdays, which affects transportation networks and their congestion levels. Using data from an online survey conducted in spring 2022 in France, Bayesian regressions and a multilevel model are used to analyze employee’s current and ideal weekly number and distribution of full-day home-based remote workdays. Firstly, the findings highlight a latent demand for more remote workdays, especially among people working remotely 1 day a week. Secondly, data show a concentration of current and ideal remote workdays on Fridays, followed by Mondays and Wednesdays. Thirdly, and finally, our results show that employer’s strategies and the nature of the sector (public or private) both contribute to explain the current and ideal weekly distribution of remote workdays. These results indicate that remote work should continue to develop and be distributed unevenly over the days of the week. This uneven distribution should impact travel behavior and traffic congestion.
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The International Journal of Sustainable Transportation provides a discussion forum for the exchange of new and innovative ideas on sustainable transportation research in the context of environmental, economical, social, and engineering aspects, as well as current and future interactions of transportation systems and other urban subsystems. The scope includes the examination of overall sustainability of any transportation system, including its infrastructure, vehicle, operation, and maintenance; the integration of social science disciplines, engineering, and information technology with transportation; the understanding of the comparative aspects of different transportation systems from a global perspective; qualitative and quantitative transportation studies; and case studies, surveys, and expository papers in an international or local context. Equal emphasis is placed on the problems of sustainable transportation that are associated with passenger and freight transportation modes in both industrialized and non-industrialized areas. All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial evaluation by the Editors and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by independent, anonymous expert reviewers. All peer review is single-blind. Submissions are made online via ScholarOne Manuscripts.