The COVID-19 pandemic led to a substantial increase in the number of people working from home (telecommuting), in turn leading to unprecedented changes in mobility patterns worldwide. Due to the changing context of the pandemic, there is still a significant gap in knowledge regarding the effects of working from home on workers’ travel patterns. The main goal of this work is to unravel the interrelationship between telecommuting during the COVID-19 pandemic, the frequency of active travel for non-work utilitarian purposes, and local accessibility levels around workers’ homes. This study uses a longitudinal approach by analyzing travel and telecommuting behavior data from a two-wave survey administered in Montreal in 2019, pre-pandemic, and 2021, during COVID-19 (n = 452). Through a set of weighted multi-level linear regressions, we study the effects of telecommuting on the frequency of active travel for non-work utilitarian purposes, mediated by local accessibility around the household. Results show that the effect of telecommuting on non-work active travel for utilitarian purposes is highly dependent on local accessibility levels around the person’s household. For workers living in high local accessibility areas, an increase in telecommuting during the pandemic has induced an increase in active trips for non-work utilitarian purposes. On the other hand, for workers residing in low local accessibility neighborhoods, the effect is the opposite. This research provides insights into the effects of telecommuting on non-work active travel, an area that is currently of interest to policy-makers and practitioners working towards increasing the level of physical activity among individuals through travel.

COVID-19 大流行导致在家工作（远程办公）的人数大幅增加，进而导致全球流动模式发生前所未有的变化。由于大流行背景的变化，关于在家工作对工人出行模式的影响的认识仍然存在很大差距。这项工作的主要目标是揭示 COVID-19 大流行期间的远程办公、出于非工作功利目的的主动旅行频率以及工人家周围的当地可达性水平之间的相互关系。本研究采用纵向方法，分析了 2019 年大流行前和 2021 年 COVID-19 期间在蒙特利尔进行的两波调查的旅行和远程办公行为数据 (n = 452)。通过一组加权多级线性回归，我们研究了远程办公对出于非工作功利目的的主动旅行频率的影响，而这种影响是由家庭周围的当地可达性介导的。结果表明，远程办公对出于功利目的的非工作主动旅行的影响很大程度上取决于该人家庭周围的当地可达性水平。对于生活在当地交通便利地区的工人来说，疫情期间远程办公的增加导致出于非工作功利目的的主动旅行增加。另一方面，对于居住在当地交通不便的社区的工人来说，效果恰恰相反。这项研究深入了解了远程办公对非工作主动旅行的影响，这是政策制定者和从业者目前感兴趣的领域，致力于通过旅行提高个人的身体活动水平。