Project Meeting 2024.11.19

Agenda

• Telecommuting Update

Technical

• Telecommuting
  • Task 1 Survey Analysis
    • Assumptions:
      • Treated as daily phenomemon
      • Considered telecommuter if they engaged in an at least 3 hours of work at home and did not travel to work
    • Three definitions of telecommuting
      • Telecommute status: commuter, telecommuter, not working
        • No hybrid definition
      • Telecommute frequency survey - responding to survey question directly
      • Telecommute frequency calculated - based on behavior observed in survey
    • Hypothesis - telecommuters have different travel behaviors
      • Time of work activity - no results; data does not record start times of home-based work activities
      • More non-mandatory activities - evidence is weak
      • Time of non-mandatory activities - confirmed; strong evidence
      • More escorting - confirmed; strong evidence
    • Survey only asks questions about telecommuting if they do not have usual work location
    • Survey Results
      • Weighted by persons; represents one day
      • Telecommute frequency
        • Survey defined - Definition of telecommuting is ambitious
          • ~50% do not telecommute; 7% 1 day per week; 20% 2-3 days/week
        • Telecommute calculated
          • ~56% do not telecommute; 17% 1 day; 17% 2-3 days/week
      • Quantity of non-mandatory tours
        • 10,000 tours; 1.72 non-mandatory tours per person per day
        • Very little difference in rates between telecommuters and "not workers"; some but week evidence (would need statistical test to verify)
      • Duration of non-mandatory tours
        • "Not workers" have longer non-mandatory tours; evidence is strong; fewer telecommuting days the longer the duration of non-mandatory tours on non-working days
      • Start time of non-mandatory tours
        • AM Peak for both groups; Telecommuters have PM peak around 5pm, while "not workers" do not have a PM peak
        • Those who telecommute more are the ones who have the PM peak
      • Escort Status
        • Need to redo analysis w/ only school-aged kids
  • Dave will make dashboard available and findings will be documented in memo, which is an official deliverable
  • Next steps: Task 2 - sensitivity tests; Plan on Dec 3rd meeting for update
  • Task 3 - software change identification - can complete by mid-December, Dec. 17th update
    • Stefan - wants confirmation we aren't missing the hybrid population (going to work and telecommuting)
    • Software changes are very modest
    • Joel - consider breaking out 2 and 3 days, w/ same coefficients