Fort Worth Area High-Occupancy Vehicle Facilities: A Feasibility Assessment

In recent years, demand for freeway facilities in major Texas metropolitan areas has increased faster than the ability to increase freeway capacity. High-occupancy vehicle (HOV) improvements have been recognized as one alternative for cost effectively increasing freeway capacity. HOV facilities increase the people occupancy vehicles.|In July 1992, the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) began a feasibility study of high-occupancy vehicles needs in the Fort Worth area. This study was sponsored by the Fort Worth District of the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT). The intent of the study was to use sketch planning methods to evaluate the HOV needs in selected Fort Worth freeway corridors and to determine if and when HOV alternative could be considered feasible in providing increased capacity for those corridors.|The initial study was in the internal review stages when the Mobility 2010 Update was released by NCTCOG. At the direction of the District, TTI required some additional time to update the study to reflect the updated traffic volumes.