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2021 Urban Mobility Report

By | | Transportation
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In what may be one of the most obvious reports ever, the Texas Transportation Institute has announced that congestion in 2020 was only about half as bad as congestion had been in 2019. The institute used to publish its congestion reports each year, but the 2021 Urban Mobility Report is the first in several years. The last report had data only through 2017, but this one goes through 2020.

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The report estimates that congestion cost commuters $190 billion in 2019, declining to $101 billion in 2020. Congestion also cost shippers $172 billion in 2019, falling to $95 billion in 2020. While these are interesting, if somewhat incomprehensible, numbers, the report doesn’t provide a lot of guidance about what to expect in the future. Continue reading →

Push-Back Against Working at Home?

By | | News commentary, Transportation
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The share of “knowledge workers” who will continue to work at home after the pandemic is likely to double from before the pandemic, according to a new study from the Gartner management-consulting firm. If that can be scaled up to all workers, that means the share of people working at home is likely to go from about 6 percent in 2019 to 12 percent in 2022.

Home office photo by Jeremy Levine.

I suspect it will be even more. So-called knowledge workers were already more likely to work at home than people in other professions, and I suspect the telecommute shares of some of those other professions are likely to grow more. Another recent survey, for example, found that a full 25 percent of New Jersey workers are likely to continue working at home after 2021. Continue reading →