| Title | Golden Gate Vanpool Demonstration Project: Interim Report |
|---|---|
| Record ID | 50350 |
| Personal Name Creator |
Dorosin, Edith; Fitzgerald, Peter; Richard, Bruce |
| Source | 310p. |
| Corporate Creator | Crain & Associates |
| Corporate Contributor |
United States. Department of Transportation. Research and Special Programs Administration. Transportation Systems Center; United States. Department of Transportation. Urban Mass Transportation Administration. Office of Service and Methods Demonstration |
| Publisher | United States. Department of Transportation. Urban Mass Transportation Administration |
| Publication Date | 19790701 |
| Language | English |
| Abstract | This interim report evaluates the Golden Gate Vanpool Demonstration Project activities begun in October 1977. The project was designed to test the feasibility of a public sector agency's (Golden Gate) promotion of the formation of vanpool groups which would be operated and administered after a six-month introductory period on a private basis. New groups would then be formed and placed in the vacated project vans. The objective of the demonstration is to successfully promote commuter ridesharing through vanpools. As such, the demonstration is part of a larger promotion of ridesharing involving both carpools and vanpools. The project grantee, the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District, is a multimodal transportation agency which operates buses and ferries and sponsors club buses with control of a toll bridge and joint control of a High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) highway lane that feeds into it and leads to the San Francisco employment area. The Golden Gate Corridor presents a set of conditions ideal for vanpool formation: a single congested traffic corridor with an exclusive HOV lane leading into a major employment center via a toll bridge. The vanpool facilitator controls the toll booth and actively promotes ridesharing by allowing free bridge passage for 3-person or larger carpools and for vanpools. This report describes operating characteristics and documents planning implementation stages. Analyses of service levels, demand, productivity, marketing strategies, and vanpooler demographics are presented. The report points out that the Golden Gate Project clearly demonstrates that a public transit authority can facilitate vanpool formation and that issues once viewed as constraints, such as 13(c) agreements and reasonable insurance coverage, can be negotiated. |
| Rosap ID | dot:11739 |
| Rosap URL | https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/11739 |
| TRT Terms | Carpools; Commuters; Demonstration projects; High occupancy vehicle lanes; Insurance; Level of service; Marketing; Productivity; Public transit; Ridership; Toll bridges; Traffic congestion; Traffic lanes; Urban transportation; Vanpools |
| Classification | NTL - PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION - PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION; NTL - PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION - Social Impacts; NTL - PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION - Transit Economics and Finances; NTL - PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION - Transit Planning and Policy |
| Geographical Coverage |
San Francisco (California) |
| TRIS Online Accession No |
00304655 |
| Contract Number | DOT-TSC-1081 |
| Report Number | DOT-TSC-UMTA-79-21; UMTA-CA-06-0095-79-1 |
| Resource type | Tech Report |
| URL | https://ntlrepository.blob.core.windows.net/lib/50000/50300/50350/DOT-TSC-UMTA-79-21.pdf |
| Format | |
| Database | NTL Digital Repository |