Single Occupant Vehicle

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A single occupant vehicle (SOV) is a privately operated vehicle whose only occupant is the driver. The drivers of SOVs use their vehicles primarily for personal travel, daily commuting and for running errands. The types of vehicles include, but are not limited to sport utility vehicles (SUVs), light-duty trucks, and any combination thereof, along with all the various van and car sizes, but generally exclude human powered vehicles such as bicycles.

This term is used by transportation engineers and planners. SOVs contrast with high-occupancy vehicles (HOV) which carry many passengers.

A low-occupancy vehicle (LOV) is a motor vehicle with one or two occupants, which is not permitted to use high occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes (known as transit lanes in Australia and bus lanes in New Zealand). HOV lanes tend to be restricted to motor vehicles carrying at least three occupants, sometimes with exemptions for bicycles and motor bicycles.

Contents 1 Definitions 2 References 3 See also 4 External links

Definitions

A vehicle occupied by only one person.
– US Department of Transportation

A single-occupant vehicle refers to an automobile that is used to get just one person to a destination.
– Denver Regional Air Quality Council

References

See also

• Low Occupancy Vehicle (LOV)
• High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV)

External links

• ["Trends in Single-Occupant Vehicle and Vehicle Miles of Travel Growth in the United States"