Studies are presented on the feasibility, methodology, and benefits of coordinated and shared automobile usage, or carpooling, in urban areas. The most important transportation-related problems to be dealt with in cities today are traffic congestion, air pollution and fuel shortage. Reports show that these are alleviated by carpooling. Carpooling and also vanpooling, or ridesharing in general, not only increase the efficiency of the public transportation system but contribute as well towards fuel conservation, i.e. energy conservation. Preferential lane treatments in many cities (priority lanes) for buses and carpools or high-occupancy vehicles is presented, ridesharing commuter services coupled with brokeage service is also discussed. Other facets of carpooling such as employer-preferential treatment of carpoolers, carpool-matching services, incentives to gain motorists' support, and the like is presented. (This updated bibliography contains 207 citations, 25 of which are new entries to the previous edition.)
Car Pools. 1970-March, 1982 (Citations from the NTIS Data Base)
1982
214 pages
Report
No indication
English
Transportation & Traffic Planning , Road Transportation , Bibliographies , Travel , Passenger vehicles , Coordination , Groups , Feasibility , Benefit cost analysis , Urban transportation , Incentives , Public opinion , Air pollution abatement , Energy , Fuel consumption , Roads , Vehicular traffic control , Car pools , Bus lanes , Automobile usage , Commuting , Reserved traffic lanes , Car pool lanes , Energy conservation , High occupancy vehicles , Ridesharing