The report evaluates the Golden Gate Vanpool Demonstration Project activities begun in October 1977. The objective of the demonstration is to successfuly promote commuter ridesharing through vanpools. The project grantee, the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District, is a multi-modal transportation agency which operates buses and ferries and sponsors club buses, with control of a toll bridge and joint control of a High Occupancy vehicle (HOV) highway lane that feeds into it and leads to the San Francisco employment area. The Golden Gate Corridor presents a set of conditions ideal for vanpool formation: a single congested traffic corridor with an exclusive HOV lane leading into a major employment center via a toll bridge. The vanpool facilitator controls the toll booth and actively promotes ridesharing by allowing free bridge passage for 3-person or larger carpolls and for vanpools. The report describes operating characteristics and documents planning implementation stages. Analyses of service levels, demand, productivity, marketing strategies, and vanpooler demographics are presented. The report points out that the Golden Gate Project clearly demonstrates that a public transit authority can facilitate vanpool formation and that issues once viewed as constraints, such as 13(c) agreements and reasonable insurance coverage, can be negotiated.


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    Vanpool Pricing and Financing Guide

    P. L. Winters / F. Cleland | NTIS | 2000




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