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In an effort to reduce traffic and encourage carpooling, some governments have introduced high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes in which only vehicles with two or more passengers are allowed to drive. HOV lanes can create strong practical incentives for carpooling by reducing travel time and expense. [6]
Carpools of two people or more, transit, vanpools and motorcycles may still use the HOT as a regular HOV lane, free of charge but will need the transponder as it is the only way to communicate that you are an HOV vehicle: all vehicles without a transponder are tolled even with multiple people in the car. If vehicles have two or more occupants ...
A high-occupancy vehicle lane on Interstate 5 in Seattle. A high-occupancy vehicle lane (also known as an HOV lane, carpool lane, diamond lane, 2+ lane, and transit lane or T2 or T3 lanes) is a restricted traffic lane reserved for the exclusive use of vehicles with a driver and at least one passenger, including carpools, vanpools, and transit buses.
A 2022 update to California's Clean Air Vehicle decals granted low- and zero-emission vehicles access to HOV lanes just until Sept. 30, 2025. At the time of the update, there were 411,133 vehicles ...
Moovit already has its own carpool system, but Waze has a much larger community of drivers. They're launching a pilot program in the US, Brazil, Mexico and Israel that would make Waze Carpool ...
A "slug line" of passengers waiting for rides. Slugging, [1] also known as casual carpooling and flexible carpooling, [2] is the practice of forming ad hoc, informal carpools for purposes of commuting, essentially a variation of hitchhiking.
PHOTO: Matt Houlihan and his siblings, Kelsey Houlihan Ford and Brian Houlihan, surprised their father, Tim Houlihan, on his last day of work with one last shared carpool ride. (Matt Houlihan)
A car jockey solicits by the side of the road a random commuter who does not have enough passengers to use a carpool lane legally. The jockey offers to go along with the commuter for a fixed price. This was a way to bypass carpool restrictions requiring a certain number of passengers.