Hamza Zubair , Susilawati Susilawati , Amin Talei , Ziyuan Pu
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Understanding the role of decentralised workspaces and hybrid working in alleviating city centre pressure and promoting urban sustainability
Research on hybrid working and travel behaviour has shown inconclusive findings regarding its impact on the transport system. Studies have explored the association between hybrid work and mixed land use. Nevertheless, the spatial dynamics between residential and workplace locations, land use preferences, and the spatial needs of hybrid workers, such as the optimal location for coworking spaces (CWSs), remain under-investigated. Additionally, the potential to reduce vehicle miles travelled (VMT) and congestion through the spatial redistribution of hybrid workers from the city centre to peripheral zones remains unexplored. Therefore, this study investigates the impact of various working arrangements on commuting patterns, VMT, and spatial demand for decentralised workspaces across different locations. It also examines work and non-work trips across various geographic contexts and proposes policy strategies to maximise the benefits of hybrid working.
K-means clustering and a multinomial regression model are used to analyse data collected from Greater Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from 10 June to 20 July 2023. The results reveal that hybrid workers might reduce VMT, but their effectiveness depends on residential location, commuting patterns, and worker profiles. Non-work travel is significantly higher among semi-urban hybrid workers in Cluster 2 and CBD-based on-site workers in Cluster 1. Promoting hybrid work and decentralised CWSs in semi-urban areas may reduce commuter flows to the city centre, lower VMT, and support a more diverse workforce. The findings highlight the need for context-specific hybrid work and CWS strategies, offering valuable insights for policymakers and planners to support sustainable urban mobility.
期刊介绍:
Sustainable Cities and Society (SCS) is an international journal that focuses on fundamental and applied research to promote environmentally sustainable and socially resilient cities. The journal welcomes cross-cutting, multi-disciplinary research in various areas, including:
1. Smart cities and resilient environments;
2. Alternative/clean energy sources, energy distribution, distributed energy generation, and energy demand reduction/management;
3. Monitoring and improving air quality in built environment and cities (e.g., healthy built environment and air quality management);
4. Energy efficient, low/zero carbon, and green buildings/communities;
5. Climate change mitigation and adaptation in urban environments;
6. Green infrastructure and BMPs;
7. Environmental Footprint accounting and management;
8. Urban agriculture and forestry;
9. ICT, smart grid and intelligent infrastructure;
10. Urban design/planning, regulations, legislation, certification, economics, and policy;
11. Social aspects, impacts and resiliency of cities;
12. Behavior monitoring, analysis and change within urban communities;
13. Health monitoring and improvement;
14. Nexus issues related to sustainable cities and societies;
15. Smart city governance;
16. Decision Support Systems for trade-off and uncertainty analysis for improved management of cities and society;
17. Big data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence applications and case studies;
18. Critical infrastructure protection, including security, privacy, forensics, and reliability issues of cyber-physical systems.
19. Water footprint reduction and urban water distribution, harvesting, treatment, reuse and management;
20. Waste reduction and recycling;
21. Wastewater collection, treatment and recycling;
22. Smart, clean and healthy transportation systems and infrastructure;