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TELECOMMUTING CENTERS IN CALIFORNIA:
1991 - 1997

Prepared for
The California State Department of Transportation (Caltrans)
and the Federal Highway Administration
under Interagency Agreement No. 60T381/A-4
by
Carol Buckinger
Francisca Mar
Patricia Mokhtarian
John Wright
Institute of Transportation Studies
University of California
Davis, California 95616
September 1997

Acknowledgements

Disclaimer

Reports

Table of Contents

Appendix

Acknowledgments

Portions of this report have been drawn from previous status tracking reports. We would therefore like to recognize the efforts of Dennis Henderson, who co-authored the original status tracking report released in December 1993; of Shirley Henderson, who with Dennis Henderson was responsible for the September 1994 report revised December 1994; John Ebeler, who co-authored the September 1995 status tracking report; and Michael Bagley and Jill Mannering who co-authored Telecommuting Centers and Related Concepts: A Review of Practice. Copies of those reports can be found on the UC Davis ITS Telecenters Program website at http://www.engr.ucdavis.edu/~its/tcenters/tc.stm. We would also like to recognize the invaluable efforts of Evangeline Edson in the research and preparation of this report.

Disclaimer

This report was prepared as part of a project sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and the California Department of Transportation Office of Traffic Improvement, under Interagency Agreement No. 60T381/A4. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of FHWA or the State of California.

REPORTS AVAILABLE FROM THE RABO PROJECT
Institute of Transportation Studies
University of California, Davis 95616

For additional information or to obtain any of these reports in hard-copy form, contact the Institute of Transportation Studies at 916-752-0247 (phone) or 916-752-6572 (fax). All of these reports may be downloaded free of charge from the Web site listed in the Acknowledgements.

Patricia L. Mokhtarian, Narayan Balepur, Michelle Derr, Chaang-Iuan Ho, David Stanek, and Krishna Varma. Residential Area-Based Offices Project: Interim Findings Report on the Evaluation of Impacts. UCD-ITS-RR-96-11, November 1996, approx. 250 pp. $25.

Bagley, Michael N., Jill S. Mannering and Patricia L. Mokhtarian. Telecommuting Centers and Related Concepts: A Review of Practice, Summary. UCD-ITS-RR-94-3, March 1994. 61 pp. $10.

Bagley, Michael N., Jill S. Mannering and Patricia L. Mokhtarian. Telecommuting Centers and Related Concepts: A Review of Practice. UCD-ITS-RR-94-4, March 1994. Approx. 250 pp. $25.

Buckinger, Carol. Telecommuting and Training: Ensuring a Successful Telecommuting Program. UCD-ITS-RR-94-1. June 1994. 33 pp. $5.

Buckinger, Carol. Picking the Participants: Guidelines for Selecting a Telecommuting Team. UCD-ITS-RR-94-11. June 1994. 41 pp. $5.

Buckinger, Carol and Patricia Mokhtarian. Status Tracking for Telecenters Participating in the Residential Area-Based Offices Program. Institute of Transportation Studies. December, 1994. 15 pp.

Ebeler, John and Patricia Mokhtarian. Status Tracking Report*, September, 1995. 32 pp.

Henderson, Dennis and Patricia Mokhtarian. Status Tracking Report*, December 1993. 8 pp.

Henderson, Shirley, Patricia Mokhtarian, and Dennis Henderson. Status Tracking Report*, June 1994 (revised December 1994). 27 pp.Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Davis 95616

* Semi-annual reports on the status of California telecommuting centers outside the Neighborhood Telecenters Program.
Shirazi, Elham and Carol Nolan. Strategies for Managing Telecommuters: A Telemanagerâs Manual. June 1995. 54 pp.

Shirazi, Elham and Carol Nolan. Strategies for Successful Telecommuting: A Telecommuterâs Manual. June 1995. 57 pp.

Stanek, David. Modeling Perceptions and Preference of Home-Based and Center-Based Telecommuting. Master's Thesis. UCD-ITS-RR-95-12. September 1995. 116 pp. $15.

TELECOMMUTING CENTERS IN CALIFORNIA: 1991 - 1997

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

TERMS AND DEFINITIONS

GENERAL INFORMATION

FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENT

CHARGES

MARKETING

OCCUPANCY RATES

DISCUSSION

CURRENTLY-OPERATING RABO TELECENTERS

Chula Vista City of Chula Vista Eastern Telecenter