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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. These restrictions may be only imposed during peak ...
Carpool. A sign encouraging carpooling during the gas shortage resulting from the 1973 oil crisis. Carpooling is the sharing of car journeys so that more than one person travels in a car, and prevents the need for others to have to drive to a location themselves. Carpooling is considered a Demand-Responsive Transport (DRT) service.
A city or location posted on a series of traffic signs along a particular stretch of road indicating destinations on that route. Controlled-access highway, motorway, or freeway. A type of highway which has been designed for high-speed vehicular traffic, with all traffic flow and ingress/egress regulated. The corduroy.
Select electric, plug-in hybrid and other alternative-fuel vehicles will lose access to the carpool lane starting Sept. 30, 2025, unless federal and state lawmakers act.
California has dangled carpool incentives for cleaner and cleaner cars for years. Soon all cars must be electric. They all can’t run in express lanes.
A high-occupancy toll lane (HOT lane) is a type of traffic lane or roadway that is available to high-occupancy vehicles and other exempt vehicles without charge; other vehicles are required to pay a variable fee that is adjusted in response to demand. Unlike toll roads, drivers have an option to use general purpose lanes, on which a fee is not ...
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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. A driver picks up these non-paying passengers (known as "slugs" or "sluggers") at key locations, as having these additional passengers means that the ...