THE FEDERAL TRANSIT ADMINISTRATION'S PERSPECTIVE ON HOV FACILITIES. FIFTH NATIONAL HIGH-OCCUPANCY VEHICLE (HOV) FACILITIES CONFERENCE, HOV FACILITIES--COMING OF AGE, CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS, APRIL 28 - MAY 1, 1991, SEATTLE, WASHINGTON

The Associate Administrator for Technical Assistance and Safety, the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) discusses the FTA perspective on HOV facilities. He comments on one of FTA's earliest HOV efforts, the Blue Streak Demonstration Project in Seattle, discusses the potential for improving the operation of HOV facilities using Intelligent Vehicle Highway System (IVHS) technologies, discusses the relationship of HOV facilities to the four elements of FTA's Advanced Public Transportation Systems (APTS) Program, and comments on the significance for HOV facilities of the unification of the federal transit assistance and federal highway programs under the current reauthorization of these programs.