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Evaluating the Travel and Communication Impacts of Advanced Residential Telecommunications Services: Lessons from the Literature
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UCD-ITS-RR-93-23 Research Report |
Suggested Citation:
Handy, Susan L. and Patricia L. Mokhtarian (1993) Evaluating the Travel and Communication Impacts of Advanced Residential Telecommunications Services: Lessons from the Literature. Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Davis, Research Report UCD-ITS-RR-93-23
The Davis Community Network (DCN) study will focus on two impacts of telecommunications. The first is the relationship between telecommunications and travel. Telecommunications is often seen as a potential substitute for physical travel, but the relationship may have many other facets as well. The second is the relationship between new telecommunications technologies and more traditional forms of telecommunication, both interactive (such phone and mail) and non-interactive (such as TV). In both cases, travel can be viewed as one form of communication, so that the question becomes one concerning the relationships among various forms of communication.
The goal of this report is to review and assess the literature on various issues that relate to the study of the impacts of the Davis Community Network (DCN). Because the issues are broad and diverse, the literatures reviewed are broad and diverse. Three sections make up the bulk of this report: experience with home information systems, studies of the telecommunications-travel relationship, and research methods. This report does not review these literatures exhaustively, but provides a structure in which further review can occur and outlines many of the issues and questions that need to be addressed. Key references that provide important insight and which cite other potentially useful references are highlighted.
The goal of this report is to review and assess the literature on various issues that relate to the study of the impacts of the Davis Community Network (DCN). Because the issues are broad and diverse, the literatures reviewed are broad and diverse. Three sections make up the bulk of this report: experience with home information systems, studies of the telecommunications-travel relationship, and research methods. This report does not review these literatures exhaustively, but provides a structure in which further review can occur and outlines many of the issues and questions that need to be addressed. Key references that provide important insight and which cite other potentially useful references are highlighted.
Prepared for the State Department of Transportation under Research Technical Agreement No. 65T449.