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Item On modeling telecommuting behavior: Option, choice, and frequency(Springer, 2013) Singh, Palvinder; Paleti, Rajesh; Jenkins, Syndney; Bhat, Chandra R.The current study contributes to the already substantial scholarly literature on telecommuting by estimating a joint model of three dimensions- option, choice and frequency of telecommuting. In doing so, we focus on workers who are not self-employed workers and who have a primary work place that is outside their homes. The unique methodological features of this study include the use of a general and flexible generalized hurdle count model to analyze the precise count of telecommuting days per month, and the formulation and estimation of a model system that embeds the count model within a larger multivariate choice framework. The unique substantive aspects of this study include the consideration of the “option to telecommute” dimension and the consideration of a host of residential neighborhood built environment variables. The 2009 NHTS data is used for the analysis, and allows us to develop a current perspective of the process driving telecommuting decisions. This data set is supplemented with a built environment data base to capture the effects of demographic, work-related, and built environment measures on the telecommuting-related dimensions. In addition to providing important insights for policy analysis, the results in this paper indicate that ignoring the “option” dimension of telecommuting can, and generally will, lead to incorrect conclusions regarding the behavioral processes governing telecommuting decisions. The empirical results have implications for transportation planning analysis as well as for the worker recruitment/retention and productivity literature.Item On modeling the choice and frequency of home-based telecommuting(Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, 2003) Popuri, Yasasvi D.; Bhat, Chandra R.This paper proposes a joint model of home-based telecommuting choice and weekly telecommuting frequency. The model is applied to an empirical analysis using data from a household survey conducted by the New York Metropolitan Transportation Council. The empirical results underscore the importance of socioeconomic and occupational characteristics of employees in explaining telecommuting behavior. Further, the analysis also indicates that failure to accommodate common unobserved factors affecting telecommuting choice and frequency can lead to inconsistent estimation of the effects of exogenous variables and misleading projections of the magnitude of telecommuting.Item Teleworking: Some Texas Initiatives(Bureau of Business Research, The University of Texas at Austin, 1997-10) Panol, Zeny S.In this era of the virtual corporation, three Texas cities ranked in the top ten of Fortune magazine's 1995 best places that "serve the evolving workplace": Austin, Dallas, and Houston. This new workplace embraces the "work anywhere, anytime" paradigm - a flexibility, experts insist, facilitated but not dictated by communications technology.Item Texas Business Review, October 1997(Bureau of Business Research, The University of Texas at Austin, 1997-10) Panol, Zeny S.; Chapman, Gary