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- [Narrator] Traditionally,

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regulatory agencies have
approached our mobility needs

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as an engineering problem.

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Today, a diversity of
transportation options

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and changing preferences
for where folks want

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to live require a more personal approach.

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The Texas Department of
Transportation with help

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from the Center

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for Transportation Research
is working proactively

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to determine what travelers need

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from their future transportation system.

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- The thing is, we know change is coming

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and that's gonna impact the way we travel.

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And so being able to account
for this, getting insight

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into people's behaviors and
these types of situations

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that are arising are gonna
let us better meet their needs

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in the future.

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- What we are trying to do is,
can we learn something today

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from preferences so that
we can plan for tomorrow?

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We cannot obviously wait for tomorrow

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until tomorrow comes because we need

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to start planning today.

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And so the issue is how
can we accomplish that?

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- This study began as a way to look

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into using stated preference questions

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in our travel surveys.

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So currently, we use the
travel survey and the responses

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to those questions to develop
our travel demand model.

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The questions that we use

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to develop the travel demand model are

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all revealed preference questions.

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So they ask about what
someone's actually done.

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They ask about what trips they've made,

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what roads they've taken,
the transportation mode used.

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Unlike revealed preference questions,

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stated preference questions
help us get insights

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into situations that don't yet exist.

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So for example, after the
height of the COVID pandemic

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and working from home, we're
in a period of transition.

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Companies are rethinking
telecommuting policies,

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and as they begin to change,
we can't just use past behavior

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or revealed preferences to
predict future behavior.

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Instead, we may turn to
stated preference questions.

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Specifically, this research project seeks

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to use questions about
people's workplace preferences

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to gain insights and plan for
future commuting patterns.

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We found single women with young children,

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people with long commutes,

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those who have private
study areas in their homes,

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self-employed, non-essential
service workers,

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they all preferred to work from home.

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On the other hand, older men,

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people from lower income houses,

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people living in rural areas,

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and those in essential occupations prefer

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to work from the office.

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And then non-single women
with young children,

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low income households,
part-time employees,

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and professional managerial

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or finance occupations have
the highest predisposition

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for working from a third workplace.

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- In the past 20 years
or so, planning has gone

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into a more proactive role
as opposed to a reactive.

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But I think the difference today is

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that many of these things

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that we see today are not
going to go into tomorrow.

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We cannot wait to plan.

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That has to start today,

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and that's what our project helps with.

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- [Narrator] For more information

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and to find the publication
for this project,

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please visit the TxDOT research library

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at the link shown below.