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How Carpool Lanes Make Traffic Worse - Cheddar Explains

Cheddar 696,217 lượt xem 3 years ago
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Figuring out how to reduce congestion and emissions has long been a thorny issue for the car-centric United States. One possible solution - high-occupancy vehicle lanes (HOV), or carpool lanes - have their own thorny history. Despite pushes from the federal government for more HOV lanes in the 1970s and 1990s, the math of how HOV lanes work may mean they relieve traffic only a little - or even make it worse.

Further reading:

Reason Foundation
https://reason.org/wp-content/uploads/files/f74f4436cd5e98624899baf1c02c384f.pdf

National Transportation Library
https://ntlrepository.blob.core.windows.net/docs/retk.html

UC Berkeley Transportation Center
https://escholarship.org/content/qt1v11k99t/qt1v11k99t.pdf
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5cg3q14s
https://escholarship.org/content/qt14q590w3/qt14q590w3.pdf?t=lnrxj0
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7jx6z631

Int’l J. of Control and Automation
https://u.cs.biu.ac.il/~wisemay/ijca2019hov.pdf

Federal Highway Administration
https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/freewaymgmt/faq.htm#faq7
https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/freewaymgmt/hovguidance/chapter2.htm

J. of Trans. Research Board
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Chris-Ganson/publication/315534829_Closing_the_Ind[…]duced-Vehicle-Travel-Gap-Between-Research-and-Practice.pdf

J. of Planning Literature
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0885412212451028

Royal Society Publishing
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsta.2019.0314

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