SACRAMENTO CAR-POOL PROJECT: INTERIM EVALUATION REPORT

This paper describes and evaluates a government program whose purpose is to obtain knowledge about and demonstrate the practicality of car pooling as a means of conserving fuel, improving air quality, and reducting transportation costs by better use of vehicles and existing transportation facilities. The program accomplishes this purpose by promoting the voluntary formation of car pools. The paper also addresses (a) the public benefits that result from car-pool matching projects, (b) the dollar benefits to participants in such projects, and (c) the costs to provide the benefits. Many insights into the conditions, practices, and natures of participants that lead to successful car-pooling efforts are furnished, and a conclusion is reached that a cost-benefit ratio of 14.7:1 can be achieved. /Author/

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• Authors:
  • Jones, Bill
  • Derby, Jack
• Publication Date: 1967

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 38-42
• Monograph Title: Innovations in Transportation System Planning
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 619
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air pollution; Benefit cost analysis; Carpools; Economics; Federal assistance programs; Federal government; Fuel consumption; Transportation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Federal programs
• Geographic Terms: Sacramento (California)
• Subject Areas: Economics; Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00163931
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309025982
• Report/Paper Numbers: Intrm Rpt.
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Oct 13 1977 12:00AM