Title: Impacts of carpool utilization on the katy freeway authorized vehicle lane: 12 month "after" evaluation
Abstract:A major commitment has been made in the houston area to develop physically separated authorized vehicle lanes in the medians of freeways. The lanes are reserved for specially authorized high occupancy...A major commitment has been made in the houston area to develop physically separated authorized vehicle lanes in the medians of freeways. The lanes are reserved for specially authorized high occupancy vehicles. Phase 1 of the first completed authorized vehicle lane (avl) opened on the katy freeway (i-10) in October 1984. Since that is the first of many such lanes, in some respects it is being used as a laboratory to determine desirable approaches for operating the avl facilities. To increase potential utilization, in addition to buses and vanpools, a decision was made to permit authorized carpools to begin using the avl on a test basis in April 1985. This research study, funded jointly by the metropolitan transit authority of harris county and the Texas state department of highways and public transportation, was initiated to undertake a comprehensive analysis of the effects of permitting carpool utilization. This report documents the data collected in April through June 1986, one year after carpool utilization of the avl was permitted. Comprehensive traffic data, both on the avl and the freeway, were collected. In addition, surveys of transit users on the avl, vanpool drivers on the avl, vanpool passengers on the avl, carpool drivers on the avl, carpool passengers on the avl, and motorists not using the avl were undertaken. In this report, these data are compared to similar data collected before carpool utilization was permitted to identify the impacts of permitting carpools to use the avl (a).Read More
Publication Year: 1986
Publication Date: 1986-08-01
Language: en
Type: article
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