{"id":707392,"date":"2024-10-15T05:31:06","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T12:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/?post_type=wherenext&#038;p=707392"},"modified":"2025-01-15T09:57:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T17:57:43","slug":"new-commute-analysis","status":"publish","type":"wherenext","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/publications\/wherenext\/new-commute-analysis","title":{"rendered":"Mapping the What-Ifs for How Employees Get to Work"},"author":501,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","castos_file_data":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[430861,404762,182012,320192],"department":[488822],"wherenext-category":[],"industry":[],"class_list":["post-707392","wherenext","type-wherenext","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-business-continuity","tag-business-risk","tag-hr","tag-workforce","department-sustainability-risk"],"acf":{"short_description":"When an act of nature cuts off workers from their workplaces, modern mapping technology can help reconnect them.","pdf":{"host_remotely":false,"file":"","file_url":""},"flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"sidebar","layout":"standard","image_reference":null,"image_reference_figure":"","spotlight_image":null,"section_title":"","spotlight_name":"","position":"Left","content":"<strong>Snapshot:<\/strong> The tried-and-true commute analysis\u2014used to site new offices, warehouses, and other business operations\u2014deserves a modern update. Enter the climate-aware analysis.","snippet":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"When a landside collapsed the road connecting southeastern Idaho and Jackson, Wyoming, it instantly isolated nearly 40 percent of the popular destination\u2019s 25,000 workers. For hotels, health-care facilities, and rafting operations, this wasn\u2019t just a traffic headache\u2014it was an economic blow, noted the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/real-estate\/luxury-homes\/jackson-hole-landslide-housing-crisis-8679df99?mod=real-estate_lead_pos4\"><em>Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a> in its coverage of the incident.\r\n\r\nAs business execs weigh the many factors impacting their operations, they have new what-ifs to consider\u2014wildfires, floods, or sinkholes that cut off key transportation corridors.\r\n\r\nPredictive maps can help pinpoint risks and vulnerabilities, allowing business owners to plan alternatives that keep their workforce in service and operations humming.\r\n<h3><strong>Commute Analysis Illuminates Employees\u2019 Paths to the Workplace<\/strong><\/h3>\r\nWhen evaluating new office or business locations, many companies analyze employee commutes, comparing travel times by car or public transit to find the most suitable location.\r\n\r\nThe predictive modeling technology used for that analysis, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/en-us\/what-is-gis\/overview\">geographic information system (GIS)<\/a>, can address a more complex modern dilemma: Which routes may be impacted by a natural disaster, and what might that mean for business operations?\r\n\r\nDirectly and indirectly, weather-related events cause significant damage to transportation networks each year. Heat, flooding, fires, and even the heavy traffic involved in disaster response weaken roads and other infrastructure. For example, the two weeks spent removing debris from the devastating 2018 Camp Fire in Paradise, California, equaled 20 years of traffic on those roads, according to a federal official quoted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.constructiondive.com\/news\/climate-change-impact-road-construction\/717936\/\"><em>Construction Dive<\/em><\/a>."},{"acf_fc_layout":"sidebar","layout":"standard","image_reference":null,"image_reference_figure":"","spotlight_image":null,"section_title":"","spotlight_name":"","position":"Right","content":"<strong>Related Read:<\/strong>\r\n\r\n\/\/ A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbre.ca\/insights\/articles\/commuting-is-the-offices-worst-enemy-but-cbre-can-help\">major real estate firm<\/a> talks GIS, commute analysis","snippet":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"When those natural perils cause lengthier commutes for workers, the outlook for business continuity grows more complicated. In the past, a long commute was a burden for the employee but not necessarily the employer. Now, infrastructure failures are making it the employer\u2019s problem, too, as business grinds to a halt when multiple employees can\u2019t get to work. Workers like those in Jackson are being priced out of residential areas <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/business\/economy\/maine-affordable-housing-costs-tourism-rcna160464\">near the places they work<\/a>, exacerbating the problem.\r\n\r\nForward-thinking business analysts can add modern GIS techniques to commute analysis, using information about past hazards to anticipate what may happen. Ample resources already reveal such vulnerabilities. <a href=\"https:\/\/hazards.fema.gov\/nri\/\">FEMA\u2019s National Risk Index<\/a>, for one, shows a county or census tract\u2019s susceptibility to events such as an ice storm, landslide, wildfire, or flooding that could cut off employees from business locations. The <a href=\"https:\/\/resilience.climate.gov\/\">Climate Mapping for Resilience &amp; Adaptation<\/a> tool shows which climate hazards may affect locations around the country throughout this century.\r\n\r\nThe situation in Jackson illustrates how quickly landslides or floods can wipe out a crucial route. GIS flood inundation models illustrate precisely where water levels are likely to reach during a storm or even sunny-day flooding. Some municipalities have taken this a step further, making\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mW8XclJ3oXE\">3D renderings <\/a>of what streets will look like with sea-level rise\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/blog\/smart-planning-kauai\/\">crafting new planning regulations<\/a> and building codes to account for it."},{"acf_fc_layout":"quote","image":707402,"text":"As executives plan new business locations and reassess existing sites, employee access is becoming a more complicated equation\u2014one that demands reliable location intelligence.","author_name":"","author_profession_organization":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<h3><strong>Linking a Workforce with Work via GIS<\/strong><\/h3>\r\nThe landslide disrupting the commute to Jackson inspired innovative ideas, such as pairing employees with local homeowners offering rooms for rent near workplaces.\r\n\r\nThat kind of contingency could be mapped in advance as part of a business continuity plan. To do so, analysts might take a lesson from <a href=\"https:\/\/mediaspace.esri.com\/media\/t\/1_fhmmwiur?st=535\">Miami-Dade County<\/a>. Officials there assigned more than 6,000 essential workers to manage 80 evacuation shelters during hurricane season. They used the HR system and GIS to make the assignments and to create an app showing workers located near each shelter along with which languages they spoke and other skills.\r\n\r\nAs volatile weather puts transportation corridors in jeopardy, smart organizations will use GIS technology to gauge what might happen if things don\u2019t go as planned.\u00a0That includes a new form of commute analysis aimed at creating a safe path for employees to get to work."}],"references":null},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Commute Analysis for Employees Takes on Risk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A commute analysis tells company leaders where to locate a new office, store, warehouse, or service depot. 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