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Table 5. Information and communications technology and working: implications

for transport

Application

Role of informationand communicationstechnology

Internet, e-mail, mobilecommunications,portable computers,etc., teleservicing

Impacts on transport

e-Office

Possibly a reduction in travel frequency butlonger distance travel could also result (whenindividuals move further for work) and/orsubstitution of work travel with other

travel–with the time saved by not travellingto work. May also lead to the use of moreon-the-move working options duringlong-distance travel

Potential reduction in travel distance, butlimited in application–many face-to-face

meetings may be more useful and productive:telephones have not reduced the need formeetings. There may also be some

substitution of meeting travel with othertravel, with the time saved by not travellingto a meeting

May reduce the need for meetings toexchange routine information

e-MeetingVideoconferencing

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e-Information

E-mail, FTP, extranet,etc.

up rate seems to be optimistic. This particularly applies in the context of thepotential of Internet shopping.Working

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