Traffic Congestion

President’s Corner

The Telework Coalition (TelCoa), America’s leading nonprofit telework education and advocacy organization, based in Washington DC, was established in 2002 by a group of professionals with experience in addressing the benefits, adoption, and implementation of telework and telecommuting programs. This was in response to a growing need for a single, reliable source of reference material about technology’s impact on our economy, environment, energy usage, and our society in general. TelCoa focuses on how this technology is changing our lifestyles, organizational structures and workplace management, along with the policies, processes and procedures that support them.

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Guest Columnist

Telecommuting Catches On at the Council of Better Business Bureaus

Matthew Scandale

The Council of Better Business Bureaus (CBBB) is a national nonprofit headquartered in the Washington, DC area. They generate $20 million a year with 114 employees, leading a network of 115 independent BBB's generating $165 million in revenue with 2,300 employees. So they probably land in the middle of mid-sized organizations. We work hard to make the world a better place, helping consumers to avoid getting ripped off. We were a random collection of about 100 white-collar workers bustling about the halls and cubicles of a random high-rise in DC. Or at least that's the way it was until this year.

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The Texas Transportation Institute Annual Urban Mobility Report is the most comprehensive report in the United States detailing traffic and traffic congestion.

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Telework is working in Georgia

September 13, 2011
By Mike Williams, Employer Services Director at The Clean Air Campaign

Traffic on the nation’s interstate highways from 1980 to 2006 has grown by 150% – but capacity grew by just 15%. Georgia’s telework strategy to reduce traffic has been successful with an increase of 20% or 600,000 teleworkers. Telework is a smart business strategy with many benefiting from lower real estate costs, reduced absenteeism, and the ability to remain productive when Mother Nature interferes with the ability to get to work.

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The Most for Our Money:
Taxpayer Friendly Solutions for the Nation’s Transportation Challenges

Report Aims to Improve Transportation with Seven Tools

May 20, 2011, by Enid Burns, alt transport

A report presented by the Reason Foundation, Transportation for America and Taxpayers for Common Sense, “The Most for Our Money,” offers seven cost-effective transportation strategies for the U.S. to improve its infrastructure. Those categories include transportation scenario planning; high occupancy toll lanes (HOT Lanes); bus rapid transit (BRT); intelligent transportation systems (ITS); intercity buses; teleworking and local street connectivity.

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Traffic Congestion

The Most for Our Money: Taxpayer Friendly Solutions for the Nation’s Transportation Challenges

The Most for Our Money:
Taxpayer Friendly Solutions for the Nation’s Transportation Challenges