Car pools (a bibliography with abstracts). Report for 1970-November 1979

Technical Report · Wed Oct 31 23:00:00 EST 1979

OSTI ID:5590409

Kenton, E

Studies are presented of the feasibility, methodology, and benefits of coordinated and shared automobile usage, or carpooling, in urban areas. The most important transportation-related problems to be dealt with in cities today are traffic congestion, air pollution and fuel shortage. Reports show that these are alleviated by carpooling. Carpooling and also vanpooling, or ridesharing in general, not only increase the efficiency of the public transportation system but contribute as well towards fuel conservation, i.e. energy conservation. Preferential lane treatments in many cities (priority lanes) for buses and carpools or high-occupancy vehicles is presented, ridesharing commuter services coupled with brokeage service is also discussed. Other facets of carpooling such as employer-preferential treatment of carpoolers, carpool-matching services, incentives to gain motorists' support, and the like is presented. (This updated bibliography contains 153 abstracts, 57 of which are new entries to the previous edition.)

• Research Organization: National Technical Information Service, Springfield, VA (USA)
• OSTI ID: 5590409
• Report Number(s): PB-801178
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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