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Access management is important to transportation planning for a variety of reasons. It is the primary method for maintaining the roadway functional hierarchy that forms the foundation of transportation plans – a hierarchy defined by its relative emphasis on access or mobility. Access management is also a cost-effective way to advance a broad range of planning goals relating to safety, mobility, livability, the environment, and system and corridor preservation. Addressing access management in the planning process promotes better coordination between land use and transportation planning and often leads to improved coordination between state and local governments in corridor management. The result of integrating access management into transportation plans is a stronger legal and political foundation for implementing access management in the land development process. Despite its importance to transportation planning, most research on access management has been conducted on the implementation side of projects, plans and policies. NCHRP Project 08-46 was initiated by the Transportation Research Board in 2002 to help fill that gap. The findings were synthesized in NCHRP Report 548: "A Guidebook for Including Access Management in Transportation Planning" (TRB 2005). The study focused on the integration of access management into transportation planning at all levels of government, and culminated in a guide for states, MPOs, and local governments for that purpose. This paper presents findings from NCHRP Project 08-46 on integrating access management into local transportation planning. It addresses how access management strategies can be used to advance a broad range of community planning goals, and reviews access management strategies that can be directly applied by communities alone, or in coordination with state transportation agencies and metropolitan planning organizations, through the transportation planning process. Opportunities to address access management, actual case examples, and issues to consider are identified in the context of a range of local transportation planning activities.

01044603

English

12p

2006

10th National Conference on Transportation Planning for Small and Medium-Sized Communities

CD-ROM

Maps (1) ; References (12)

Access control (Transportation); City planning; Communities; Coordination; Land use planning; Local government; Transportation planning

Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

TRIS, TRB

Mar 23 2007 10:36AM

• 1995-2004 CARTS Pedestrian/Bicyclist Crash Analysis
• A Pavement Management System for County Roads in the State of Alabama
• Application of an Internet-Based Travel Survey in a Medium-Sized Community
• Applying Value Methodology to Metropolitan Transportation Planning
• Better, Stronger Faster; How Oblique Aerial Imagery Is Changing the Face of Transportation Planning
• Bozeman Bicycle Network Plan
• Comparison and Evaluation of Simplified Transportation Project Selection and Prioritization Methodologies for Use by Small and Medium Sized Planning Agencies
• Design Considerations to Mitigate Non-Response in Regional Household Travel Surveys
• Developing a Consistent, Flexible, and Defensible Methodology for State and Regional Transportation Planning
• Development of Travel Demand Modeling Tools for Small Area Planning Purposes
• Discrete Event Simulation of Forecasted Non-Urban Freight Movement
• Evaluating the Relative Safety of Access Management Treatments in Micro-Simulation
• Getting Innovative Traffic Forecasting Model Networks "In Shape" Quickly Using GIS Datasets
• Highway Ranking Model
• Implementation of a Public Transportation System in Casper, Wyoming
• Importance of Modeling Ozone Formation Attributable to Rural Interstate Traffic
• Innovative Financing at the Local Level: Project Funding for a Regional Transportation Agency
• La Entrada al Pacifico: Viability and Potential Impacts on the Odessa-Midland, Texas Area and Other Small Communities
• Local Road Safety Audits: A New Approach to an Old Problem
• Microsimulation for Transportation Planning for Small Communities
• New Approach for Updating Highway Functional Classifications
• PlanCheyenne - Co-Planning for MPOs
• Planning Analysis Toolbox for Small Urban Areas in North Carolina
• Potential Use of GPS Data for Calibrating Travel Demand Models
• Safe Routes to School in Superior, WI and Duluth, MN
• Safety Conscious Planning for Small and Medium Size Urban Areas
• Six Hints for Better Public Process
• Strategic Transportation, Environmental Planning Process for Urbanizing Places (STEP UP)
• Successful Use of Public Involvement Tools - Johns Pass Bridge Project
• Supporting Transportation Planning in Small MPOs Through Partnerships and Innovative Methods
• The Bridge Between NEPA and Corridor Studies: The Story of Northern Bridge Corridor Study
• US-280 Access Management - Managing Small Town Economics
• Using Simplified Regression Analysis in Financial Planning for an MTP, or Seeing the Forest for the Trees
• Web-Based Delivery of Geospatial and Transportation Data for a Rural Intelligent Transportation Systems Project
• When Big Projects Come to Smaller Places: The Communication Challenge
• Which Came First? The SR 386 Area Study