Telecommunications substitutability for travel: an energy conservation potential

Technical Report · Wed Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1975

OSTI ID:7295544

Lathey, C E

This document contains information concerning the substitutability of telecommunications for the information-handling activities of transportation. ''Telecommunications'' as used in this document is intended to mean all types of communications which permit the acquisition, transmission, handling, transfer, and dissemination of information through the use of the electromagnetic frequency spectrum. Following the introductory chapter, Section II, Energy Consumption: Transportation and Telecommunications, comments on some of the means implemented to conserve energy since the energy crisis in mid-1973; reviews energy consumption by the transportation and telecommunications technologies; addresses the subject of transportation/telecommunications tradeoffs; looks at intraurban travel; examines the decentralization of work forces; and investigates the nature of intercity travel. Section III, Factors Relating to And Influencing Travel, investigates and comments on the characteristics of automobile travel; discusses the nature and information needs of U.S. work forces; looks at recent automobile and telecommunications growth trends; and reviews past and current research on the subject of telecommunications as a substitute for transportation activities involving information handling. Section IV, Teleconferencing as a Substitute for Travel, reviews research conducted both in the United States and abroad as it concerns the use of teleconferencing using voice, video, computer-communications, and combined media. Section V, Sources of Information, lists documents that have been researched and referred to in the development of this document. (MCW)

• Research Organization: Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C. (USA)
• OSTI ID: 7295544
• Report Number(s): OT-Report-75-58
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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