In honor of Commuter Cars new site design I was so excited about finally getting to check the site out and then upon doing so learning how much information that they have on their site that I felt just a little obligated to share it with everyone. So here it is:
Patrick J. Balducci, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA. July 23, 2003
ABSTRACT
This report documents the findings of an analysis conducted by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, exploring the impact of Commuter Car’s Tango f on roadway performance
characteristics – level of service, flow rates, and average speeds – for a hypothetical basic freeway segment and on a segment of Interstate 5 located north of Seattle, Washington. The report also examines the parking benefits associated with the Tango f, as applied to parking in
Downtown Seattle. The study presents a methodology for calculating passenger-car equivalents for the smaller vehicles and presents modifications to standard equations for estimating vehicle flow rates to account for the introduction of the Tango f into the traffic stream. The report demonstrates the impact of the Tango f on flow rates, average speeds, and levels of service as the proportion of Tango f’s in the traffic stream grows under two scenarios. First, as the Tango f is simply introduced into the traffic stream. The second alternative explores the enhanced impacts of the Tango f as a dedicated lane is built or the vehicle is granted access to
existing high occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes or shoulders.
This is the abstract pulled from their publicly available PDF file which can be found at http://www.commutercars.com/downloads/index.html. This is just one of the many downloads they have. This particular PDF is in reference to the study done on the 
”Impact of Tango on Congestion and Parking (PNNL, US DOE)”
The also have a wealth of information in their news section. I urge you to please think about the way you drive and the impact on our lives that could be had by “keeping it simple”. I know that 70% of my car is waste and extra that I don’t need and by the looks of all the other cars on the road that tootle around with only 1 driver I would assume it is the same for 90% of everyone else out there to. I believe that the concepts embodied in the Tango F and Tango T600 can change the way we think and drive.
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