Evaluation of Puget Sound HOV Lane Hours of Operation: One-Year Results
This report documents changes in the use and operational performance of the Puget Sound freeway high occupancy vehicle (HOV) lane system one year after the hours of operation for those facilities changed. It also describes the public’s attitude toward those changes and HOV lanes in general. In the summer of 2003, a two-year pilot program began that allows single-occupant vehicles (SOVs) to use HOV lanes on four of the five primary corridors in the region (I-405, SR 167, SR 520 east of I-405, and I-90 east of East Mercer Way on Mercer Island) during the hours of 7:00 PM to 5:00 AM, seven days a week. Interstate 5’s HOV lanes remain closed to SOVs at all times, and between 5:00 AM and 7:00 PM, seven days a week, the entire Seattle-area freeway HOV lane network operates as an exclusive HOV-only system. This report uses data collected before the start of the pilot program, during the first two months of operation after the change in operating policy, and after approximately one year of operation, to describe changes that have occurred as a result of the new operating policy.
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Corporate Authors:
Washington State Transportation Center
University of Washington, 1107 NE 45th Street, Suite 535
Seattle, WA United States 98105Washington State Department of Transportation
310 Maple Park Avenue, SE, P.O. Box 47300
Olympia, WA United States 98504Federal Highway Administration
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Washington, DC United States 20590 -
Authors:
- Hallenbeck, Mark E
- Nee, Jennifer
- Ishimaru, John M
- Kopf, Jaime M
- Publication Date: 2004-12
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Edition: Draft Technical Report
- Features: Figures; Maps; Tables;
- Pagination: 82p
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Attitudes; High occupancy vehicle lanes; Policy
- Uncontrolled Terms: Hours of operation
- Geographic Terms: Puget Sound Region
- Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I73: Traffic Control;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01587156
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: WA-RD 599.1
- Contract Numbers: Agreement T2695, Task 39
- Files: TRIS, ATRI, USDOT, STATEDOT
- Created Date: Jan 18 2016 4:35PM