Abstract
Telecommuting potential analysis
Highlights
Commuting is affecting the overall cities, which generates economic, social, and environmental costs
Professional tenure and work-to-home stress foster a more favourable attitude related to productivity / quality of working life while displacement mode and home-to-work stress foster a more favourable attitude related with cost savings
This study focuses on the overall potential of telecommuting, as we evaluate a possible explanative model for adopting telecommuting with a diverse sample of Portuguese workers
Summary
Commuting is affecting the overall cities, which generates economic, social, and environmental costs. Regarding the kilometres travelled in inter-municipality commuting, 59% correspond to the trips within the main metropolitan areas, Lisbon and Porto. This confirms that Portuguese people commute more in metropolitan regions, where there is more traffic congestion, and so more economic costs. Urban consolidation led to the expectation of masses of people dislocating regularly to work, shopping, get some entertainment, and fulfil their social duties amongst many other possibilities. Traffic jam became an expectable urban landscape at certain hours due to the convergence of social rhythms mostly to work and return home. The urban growth patterns, with emerging suburbia, created a class of individuals that spend considerable time and money to assure their transportation, the commuters
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