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27 comments on Yep, Stuart's right about GSP/Cap...VMT does matter, even multivariately...

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Stuart Staniford on January 19, 2006 - 12:15am

The lost time/productivity argument is the most plausible sounding to me. Another post for another day....

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porsena on January 19, 2006 - 1:28am

It does sound plausible, but one supporting inference would be that the excess driving is coming out of the company's time (lower productivity) and not out of family time (lower quality of life). I'm thinking here that vmts are strongly influenced by commuting but have no evidence that's so.

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