 | Joel L. Horowitz, Steven Kuhrtz - Air quality management - 1974 - 84 pages
...principal obstacle to carpooling is that carpools are highly restrictive in terms of the service offered. Carpoolers must have trip origins and destinations...work trips. These trips are responsible for about 25 percent of urban area automobile emissions (Ref. 7). The present low auto occupancy rates for work... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works - 1974 - 1376 pages
...the service offered. Carpoolers must have trip origins and destinations that are close to each other, must desire to travel at the same times of day, and,...must make trips that are repetitive from day to day. These considerations suggest that the greatest potential for increased carpool usage is in connection... | |
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... is about 1.4 persons per car. Since most cars are capable of carrying at least four persons, there is considerable room for reducing automobile use and emissions through carpooling. The principal obstacle to carpooling is that carpools are highly... 