Knowledge Cities and Transport Sustainability: The Link between the Travel Behavior of Knowledge Workers and Car-Related Job Perks

ABSTRACT

This study analyzes the linkage between the travel behavior of knowledge workers and car-related job perks. The importance of this issue derives from the tendency of knowledge economy to concentrate in highly populated metropolitan regions. The analyzed data comprise 750 observations, retrieved from a survey among knowledge workers in Tel-Aviv. Results show that car-related job perks are associated with (1) high annual kilometrage, (2) increased commute by car, (3) long commute travel times, (4) high trip chaining frequency, and (5) many long-distance leisure trips. Results suggest that the development of sustainable knowledge-based cities should consider decoupling knowledge workers from car-related job perks.

Key Words:

• car-related job perks
• company car
• knowledge cities
• knowledge workers
• sustainable development

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The authors would like to express their gratitude to three anonymous reviewers for providing constructive and insightful comments that greatly improved an earlier version of this article.

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^a Reference category.

Note. The percent change is shown for variables with 10% significance level or higher.

*dy/dx is for discrete change of dummy variable from 0 to 1.

^a Reference category.

Note. The percent change is shown for variables with 10% significance level or higher.

*dy/dx is for discrete change of dummy variable from 0 to 1.

^a Reference category.

Note. The percent change is shown for variables with 10% significance level or higher.

*dy/dx is for discrete change of dummy variable from 0 to 1.