It encourages citizens throughout Hampton Roads to use alternative forms of transportation that reduces use of single occupancy vehicles.

The ban on single occupancy vehicles entering Manhattan will be lifted on Thursday, except at the Holland and Brooklyn-Battery Tunnels.

During certain hours, high occupancy vehicles may travel for free.

Often restrictions do not apply to certain other vehicles, which may include taxis, high occupancy vehicles, motorcycles, and bicycles.

You'll have a shorter commute, since you and your carpooler(s) will be able to take advantage of the lanes reserved for high occupancy vehicles.

Single occupancy vehicles upon payment of a variable fee (high occupancy toll lane only).

Build and continue to redesign communities that offer real and reliable alternatives to single occupancy vehicles.

(Those who travel the state's roads in single occupancy vehicles have jumped from 68 percent in 1980 to 78 percent in 1990, according to the latest census data available.)

That's because I have independently learned that H.O.V. stands for "high occupancy vehicle," and a lane is reserved for these civic-minded, traffic-reducing car poolers.

Addition of high occupancy vehicle and high occupancy toll lanes to freeway segments currently lacking them.