Effectiveness of California's High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) system

Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 98-115

  Kwon, Jaimyoung ^a   Varaiya, Pravin ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Carpooling; Congestion; High occupancy vehicle; HOT lanes; HOV capacity; HOV effectiveness; Los Angeles; San Francisco Bay Area; Travel time saving

Indexed keywords

CLOSED LOOP SYSTEMS; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRAFFIC CONTROL; TRANSPORTATION;

HIGH OCCUPANCY VEHICLE (HOV); TRAVEL TIME SAVING;

HIGHWAY SYSTEMS;

CONTROL SYSTEM; DETECTION METHOD; ROAD TRANSPORT; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING; TRAVEL TIME;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; SAN FRANCISCO BAY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 38849135979     PISSN: 0968090X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trc.2007.06.008     Document Type: Article

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