In order to reduce environmental impact of passenger transport the Dutch government has introduced a location policy, aimed at getting the right firm located at the right place. This means, for example, that offices have to be located near public transport nodes (such as railway stations). However, the location policy only focuses on new situations, with hardly any attention being paid to firm relocations. Every year in the Netherlands about 180,000 jobs are moved due to firm relocations and this number is still increasing. The effects of firm relocations can be influenced by the costs of transport, speed of the road traffic system and possible changes in the behaviour of employees. But how do employees behave in their reactions to firm relocations with respect to moving (move, no move) and work (change of jobs, no change of jobs). How can these be modelled? How can the models be combined with traditional transport models to calculate possible effects of firm relocations on passenger transport? See also C 7014 (IRRD 887603).
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