[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 23, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 23CFR810.4]

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                           TITLE 23--HIGHWAYS
 
 CHAPTER I--FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
 
PART 810--MASS TRANSIT AND SPECIAL USE HIGHWAY PROJECTS--Table of Contents
 
                           Subpart A--General
 
Sec. 810.4  Definitions.

    (a) Except as otherwise provided terms defined in 23 U.S.C. 101(a) 
are used in this subpart as so defined.
    (b) The following terms, where used in the regulations in this 
subpart have the following meanings:
    (1) Exclusive or preferential high occupancy vehicle, truck, or 
emergency vehicle lanes-one or more lanes of a highway facility or an 
entire highway facility where high occupancy vehicles, trucks or 
emergency vehicles or any combination thereof, are given, at all times 
or at any regularly scheduled times, a priority or preference over some 
or all other vehicles moving in the general stream of mixed highway 
traffic. Carpool lane(s)--is any high occupancy vehicle lane which 
allows use by carpools.
    (2) Fringe and transportation corridor parking facilities--those 
facilities which are intended to be used for the temporary storage of 
vehicles and which are located and designed so as to facilitate the safe 
and convenient transfer of persons traveling in such vehicles to and 
from high occupancy vehicles and/or public mass transportation systems 
including rail. The term parking facilities includes but is not limited 
to access roads, buildings, structures, equipment, improvements and 
interests in land.
    (3) High occupancy vehicle--a bus or other motorized passenger 
vehicle such as a carpool or vanpool vehicle used for ridesharing 
purposes and occupied by a specified minimum number of persons.
    (4) Highway traffic control devices--traffic control devices as 
defined by the

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currently approved ``Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for 
Streets and Highways.'' \1\
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    \1\ The MUTCD is incorporated by reference at 23 CFR part 655, 
subpart F.
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    (5) Metropolitan Planning Organization--that organization designated 
as being responsible, together with the State, for carrying out the 
provisions of 23 U.S.C. 134, as required by 23 U.S.C. 104(f)(3), and 
capable of meeting the requirements of sections 3(e)(1), 5(1), 8 (a) and 
(c) and 9(e)(3)(G) of the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964, as 
amended, 49 U.S.C. 1602(e)(1), 1604(1), 1607 (a) and (c) and 
1607a(e)(3)(G). This organization shall be the forum for cooperative 
transportation decisionmaking.
    (6) Nonhighway public mass transit project--a project to develop or 
improve public mass transit facilities or equipment. A project need not 
be physically located or operated on a route designated as part of the 
Federal-aid urban system, but must be included in and related to a 
program for the development or improvement of an urban public mass 
transit system which includes the purchase and rehabilitation of 
passenger buses and rolling stock for fixed rail facilities, and the 
purchase, construction, reconstruction or improvement of fixed rail 
passenger operating facilities. Such projects may also include the 
construction, reconstruction or rehabilitation of passenger loading and 
unloading facilities for either bus or rail passengers.
    (7) Passenger loading areas and facilities (including shelters)--
areas and facilities located at or near passenger loading points for 
safety, protection, comfort, or convenience of high occupancy vehicle 
passengers. The term areas and facilities includes but is not limited to 
access roads, buildings, structures, equipment, improvements, and 
interest in land.
    (8) Responsible local officials--(i) In areas under 50,000 
population, the principal elected officials of general purpose local 
governments; or (ii) In urbanized areas, the principal elected officials 
of general purpose local governments acting through the Metropolitan 
Planning Organization.

[50 FR 33917, Aug. 22, 1985, as amended at 51 FR 16834, May 7, 1986]