01026093

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https://doi.org/10.3141/1959-17

http://scholar.google.com...ouar&publication_year=2006

In an effort to reduce the environmental impact of automobile travel, legislatures across the country are considering laws that would allow single-occupant hybrid vehicles to use high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes. In time, single-occupant hybrid vehicles could increase congestion in HOV lanes such that the travel time incentive would be lost. A microscopic simulation method is presented; it examines the possible effects of a proposed California state hybrid HOV law that would allow single-occupant hybrid vehicles into the state’s HOV network. The results from a 12-by-16-mi freeway network being simulated around Irvine, California, under several travel demand scenarios show that the policy would not have a significant effect on HOV lane operations in the study area. Although the addition of single-occupant hybrids may have only a modest impact on short-run HOV lane operations, policy implementation opens the door to more difficult long-term policy questions.

01036675

English

pp 151-158

2006

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board

0309099684

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Figures (4) ; References (13) ; Tables (4)

Automobile travel; Environmental impacts; High occupancy vehicle lanes; Hybrid vehicles; Simulation; Single occupant vehicles; Traffic congestion; Transportation policy; Travel demand

Irvine (California)

Energy; Environment; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Public Transportation; I15: Environment; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning; I73: Traffic Control

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Mar 3 2006 11:08AM

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