CARPOOL INCENTIVES: ANALYSIS OF TRANSPORTATION AND ENERGY IMPACTS

The report quantitatively analyzes the impacts of carpooling strategies on travel behavior and energy consumption. It details the effects of 18 candidate strategies on the utilization of different transport modes for work trips and the resultant effects on non-work travel patterns, household auto ownership, and total fuel consumption. Five specific objectives governed the work performed: (1) To collect information on carpooling behavior and analyze existing experience with strategies that may encourage ride-sharing; (2) to predict, by using behavioral travel-demand models, the changes in travel patterns that might result from implementation of such strategies; (3) to translate increased carpooling (or other changes in travel patterns) into decreased fuel consumption; (4) to evaluate the feasibility of implementing particular strategies; (5) to recommend strategies for increasing carpooling and reducing fuel consumption that will be both feasible and effective.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Prepared in cooperation with Alan M. Voorhees and Associates, Inc., McLean, Va. See also report dated Mar 76, PB-263 050.
• Corporate Authors:

  Cambridge Systematics, Incorporated

  100 Cambridge Park Drive, Suite 400
  Cambridge, MA  United States  02140

  Voorhees (Alan M) and Associates, Incorporated

  Cambridge, MA  United States 

  Federal Energy Administration

  Office of Energy Conservation and Environment
  Washington, DC  United States  20461
• Publication Date: 1976-6

Media Info

• Pagination: 198 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automobile ownership; Automobiles; Carpools; Conservation; Coordination; Energy; Energy conservation; Fuel consumption; Impacts; Mathematical models; Motivation; Passenger transportation; Policy; Project management; Promotion; Travel demand; Travel patterns; Urban transportation; Work trips
• Uncontrolled Terms: Models
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Energy; Environment; Highways; Passenger Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Public Transportation; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00155060
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: FEA/D-76/391
• Contract Numbers: FEA-CO-04-50106
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 31 1981 12:00AM