Promote Sustainable Travel Behavior through Employer-Based Commute Incentives, Federal Highway Administration
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A Randomized Controlled Trial in Travel Demand Management, , Transportation, p.1-26, (2019) |
This paper presents a trial aimed at reducing parking demand at a large urban employer through an informational campaign and monetary incentives. A 6-week randomized controlled trial was conducted with (N = 2000) employee commuters at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, all of whom frequently drove to campus. Split into four arms of five hundred each, one group received weekly informational emails highlighting MIT’s various new transportation benefits; a second group received monetary... |
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Professor of Cities and Transportation |