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Study: Car pool lanes dont help

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The HOV lanes have a vehicle flow of 1600 per hour, compared with 2000 per hour for a standard lane.
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Ok, i'm not great in math... but if the carpool lane has an average of 1600 per hour compared to 2000 for the other lanes, then isn't it working? Because you need a minimum of 2 people per car i believe, that would mean those 1600 cars are transporting at minimum 3200 people. Whereas each standard lane are only transporting 2000.
 
Originally posted by: Queasy
Well, the idea is to get more people into less cars...hence "car pool". I don't think this works in practice though as I more often see the HOV lanes in Atlanta loaded up with cars carrying a mom and one or more kids.
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The real answer is dyanmic tolls based on traffic demand. Get the tolls high enough and everyone will carpool, just just the soccer moms totting their kids around.
 
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