A high-occupancy vehicle lane is a restricted traffic lane reserved for the exclusive use of vehicles with a driver and at least one passenger, including carpools, vanpools, and transit buses. These r
A high-occupancy vehicle lane on Interstate 5 in Seattle
Interstate 95/395 HOV lanes; The first HOV freeway, which opened in 1969, was on Shirley Highway in Northern Virginia; as of 2012, the I-95/I-395 HOV facility operates as a two-lane barrier-separated reversible HOV 3+ facility (center lanes) with access through elevated on- and off-ramps.
For 50 years, from 1970 to 2020, the California Department of Transportation preferred to use the term "carpool", as seen on I-405 in Los Angeles, as opposed to "HOV".
The I-495 Capital Beltway in the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Area. The facility is located in the median, has two HOV lanes in each direction with elevated on/off ramp access with a total of 224 mi (360 km) of lanes.
Slugging, also known as casual carpooling and flexible carpooling, is the practice of forming ad hoc, informal carpools for purposes of commuting, essentially a variation of hitchhiking. A driver pick
High-occupancy vehicle lane
…more people to their destinations in fewer vehicles". In Virginia, the San Francisco Bay Area, Houston, and other HOV lane locations, commuters form sluglines where drivers pick up one or more passengers from a designated "casual carpool" or "slug lines" to drive on HOV lanes; the driver pulls over near the…
Various sites in Northern Virginia are designated as "carpool staging areas", that is, slug lines.