: an arrangement by which a group of people commute to work in a van
vanpooling
noun
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The high-occupancy toll lanes still allow carpools, vanpools, and buses to travel in them for free, while also allowing single-occupant vehicles to use them for a toll.
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Baruch Feigenbaum, Oc Register, 24 June 2025
In addition, there was no relationship between Hernandez’s risk of injury from riding in the vanpool and his employer’s location, or control over conditions that caused his injuries.
—Dan Eaton, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 May 2025
Here are the free categories: carpools of three or more commuters, hybrid vehicles, vanpools of 5 to 15 commuters, motorcycles.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 20 Apr. 2025
State workers can receive incentives for using mass transit, bicycles and vanpools to get to work.
—William Melhado, Sacramento Bee, 19 Mar. 2025
Electric vehicles now make up nearly 10% of Metro’s vanpool fleet.
—Spencer Pauley | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 28 Dec. 2024
The most efficient vehicles in U.S. transit are vanpools, because van-sized vehicles offer the right compromise between the efficiencies of sharing and the downsides of sharing which hurt load factor and kill efficiency.
—Brad Templeton, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024
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Baruch Feigenbaum, Oc Register, 24 June 2025
In addition, there was no relationship between Hernandez’s risk of injury from riding in the vanpool and his employer’s location, or control over conditions that caused his injuries.
—Dan Eaton, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 May 2025
Here are the free categories: carpools of three or more commuters, hybrid vehicles, vanpools of 5 to 15 commuters, motorcycles.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 20 Apr. 2025
State workers can receive incentives for using mass transit, bicycles and vanpools to get to work.
—William Melhado, Sacramento Bee, 19 Mar. 2025
Electric vehicles now make up nearly 10% of Metro’s vanpool fleet.
—Spencer Pauley | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 28 Dec. 2024
The most efficient vehicles in U.S. transit are vanpools, because van-sized vehicles offer the right compromise between the efficiencies of sharing and the downsides of sharing which hurt load factor and kill efficiency.
—Brad Templeton, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024
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“Vanpool.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vanpool. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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