Traveler Response to Transportation System Changes Handbook, Third Edition: Chapter 5, Vanpools and Buspools (2005) / Chapter Skim
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. ADDITIONAL RESOURCES The Comsis Corporation and Institute of Transportation Engineers report, Implementing Effective Travel Demand Management Measures: Inventory of Measures and Synthesis of Experience, prepared for the Federal Highway Administration and the Federal Transit Administration, provides a comprehensive review of vanpooling as a strategy, its market and cost effectiveness, and parametric estimates of travel and traffic impact potential.
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As a result of the success of the original experiment, the number of vans was gradually increased to a total of 86 carrying over 800 riders as of January 1977, the date of the second status report. When surveyed in 1974 each van was carrying an average of 11.36 persons for an average monthly fare of $23.72 and an average round trip distance of 49 miles.
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. • Comsis Corporation and the Institute of Transportation Engineers, "Implementing Effective Travel Demand Management Measures: Inventory of Measures and Synthesis of Experience." Prepared for the Federal Highway Administration and Federal Transit Administration, Washington, DC (September, 1993)
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. Luxury vans with airline type seats were initially in greater demand than bench seat vans, despite a 60 mile round trip monthly fare of $44 versus $36, but this preference dissipated later in the project.
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These cost comparisons take into account that the average vanpooler was found to ride only 4 out of 5 days, thus increasing the effective vanpool user cost. Travel time averaged only a minute longer than for prior modes, but former transit riders saved an average of 9 minutes while former auto commuters added nearly 11 minutes.
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The Connecticut Department of Transportation and the non-profit rideshare brokerage The Rideshare Company, serving greater Hartford and Eastern Connecticut, operate the vanpool program Easy Street®. The state subsidizes the commuter service, which is available for trips beginning or ending in Connecticut.
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Even the decals themselves received national praise -- Easy Street® won the annual Commercial Fleet Graphics Contest sponsored by the Commercial Carrier Journal and the National Private Truck Council. Note that 2001–2002 statistics and service information on Easy Street® operations are provided within the "Response to Vanpool and Buspool Programs" section under "Third-Party Vanpool Programs" -- "Third-Party Vanpool Program Evolution." Sources.
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Trip length, relatively stable over the 1994 through 1996 period, averaged 38.6 miles one way or 77.1 miles round trip. Although the vanpool program is structured to achieve an 80 percent cost recovery ratio minimum, it has in practice typically achieved over 100 percent, exclusive of ADvAntage vans.
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