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Business travel:
The productive use of time
• Cost saving approach implicitly assumes all business travel
time is unproductive
– What about train travel
• If train travel is productive:
– Time saving benefits are diminished for existing travellers
– Need to factor in crowding effects, distance effects, etc. on
productivity of work whilst travelling
– Need to separate walking and waiting in the modelling of train
journey times
– Need to factor in scheduling constraints for business meetings etc.
• Problem is not straightforward