The question of effective utilization of Special Use Lanes (SULs) is often addressed in terms of persons carried, rather than vehicles carried. However, this triggers a more fundamental question, namely what is the underlying upper limit on HOV throughput (or “capacity”), given the factors identified in data analysis within this work? Those factors are to a large extent driven by the OD pattern on the facility, which was always known as important but was not accessible enough to be an explicit “prevailing condition”. The factors that are investigated in this research are: (1) high...
The question of effective utilization of Special Use Lanes (SULs) is often addressed in terms of persons carried, rather than vehicles carried. Howeve...