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Operational Performance of High-Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) Facilities: Comparison of Contiguous and Limited Access HOV Lanes in California
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Jang, Kitae Chan, Ching-Yao Du, Yaoqiong |
| Copyright Year | 2013 |
| Abstract | Traffic operational data from High-Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) facilities in California are evaluated in this study. Freeway performance measures are tailored to gauge efficiency and effectiveness of HOV operations and applied to measure the operational performance of HOV facilities in the study sites. The measured operational performance is then compared between HOV and general purpose (GP) lanes and between different types of HOV configurations. Findings from the comparative evaluation show that when compared with GP-lane travels, HOV facilities carry more people-miles with fewer vehicle-miles while offering substantial travel time savings to their users; and, when compared with limited-access, contiguous-access offer greater travel time savings for the sites examined in this study while the levels of utilization by vehicles and people are similar. Statistical tests validate the statistical significance of differences of operational performance. Based on these findings, implications for further improvement of HOV facilities are discussed. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://docs.trb.org/prp/13-4039.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
