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Rapid economic and population growth have posed challenges to Aberdeen City and Shire in UK. Some social policies can potentially be helpful to alleviate traffic congestion and help people maintain a healthy work–life balance. In this initial model, we study the impact of flexi-time work arrangement and the construction of a new bypass on average daily commute time and CO2 emissions. We find that both flexi-time scheme and the new bypass will effectively reduce average daily commute time. Introducing a 30-min flexi-time range will reduce daily commute time by 6.5 min on average. However, further increasing flexi-time range will produce smaller saving in commute time. The new bypass will also reduce daily commute time, but only by one minute on average. As for environmental impact, introducing a 30-min flexi-time range will decrease CO2 emissions by 7 %. Not only that, it also flattens the peak emission at rush hour. The bypass, on the other hand, will increase CO2 emissions by roughly 2 %.
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Ge, J., Polhill, G. (2017). Preliminary Results from an Agent-Based Model of the Daily Commute in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire, UK. In: Jager, W., Verbrugge, R., Flache, A., de Roo, G., Hoogduin, L., Hemelrijk, C. (eds) Advances in Social Simulation 2015. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 528. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47253-9_11
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