MIT researchers are astounded to discover that the increase in telecommuting has changed how people travel. Their actual research paper is paywalled, but judging from the news release they issued, they got the numbers wrong.
Americans are 25 times more likely to commute by auto than by transit, but an image search for “commute to work” turns up mostly photos of transit riders. Photo by Oren Levine.
“A 1 percent decrease in onsite workers leads to a roughly 1 percent reduction in [automobile] vehicle miles driven, but a 2.3 percent reduction in mass transit ridership,” said one o the paper’s co-authors. Let’s check that. Continue reading
