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In 1995 the Florida Department of Transportation and the Center for Urban Transportation Research completed a Corridor Study detailing access management and land development practices along U.S. Highway 98 in northwest Florida. This portion of U. S. 98 which runs around 100 miles from Panama City to Pensacola, contains sections of two-lane rural and four-lane and six-lane urban highways. This portion of U. S. 98 is on the Florida Intrastate Highway System (FIHS). The FIHS is the designated portion of Florida State Highway System that carries the bulk of our traffic and is designated to be the most important and stringently regulated to maintain mobility. After the Study was completed, a series of workshops were held to involve local government officials in the findings of the Study. The study of access management and land development practices along the corridor found many of the practices needing improvement. The workshops generated much interest and some of the local government engineers and planners went back to their respective cities and counties and worked towards instituting better land development regulation practices that help preserve mobility and safety on our highway systems. Okaloosa County, which is home of one of the fastest growing areas in the nation, Ft. Walton Beach-Destin Area, began working quickly to institute good land development practices that support access management. Not only were good land development regulation practices put in place, but greater coordination with Florida DOT staff on access management decisions was also instituted in the site plan approval process. After five years the Okaloosa County experience can be seen as a great success. This success in instituting good access management can be distilled into a few major points which they saw instituted in their ordinances and site development practices. These key items are as follows: 1. Recognition of special corridors for access management techniques; 2. New land subdivision and land development regulations along these special corridors; 3. Landscape requirements; 4. Driveway location and design criteria; 5. Site plan review assuring interparcel connectivity. The authors will show how these features were instituted into their local land development ordinances and give specific wording of these examples from their ordinances.

English

5p

2000

Fourth National Access Management Conference

Access control (Transportation); Design; Development; Driveways; Highway corridors; Highway safety; Land; Landscaping; Location; Mobility; Ordinances; Regulations; State highways; Subdivisions

Florida

Design; Highways; Law; Operations and Traffic Management; I73: Traffic Control

TRIS, TRB

Dec 30 2003 12:00AM

• 135TH STREET CORRIDOR TRAFFIC STUDY
• A METHODOLOGY TO EVALUATE THE IMPACTS OF PROHIBITING MEDIAN OPENING MOVEMENTS
• ACCESS MANAGEMENT IN MONTANA: FROM STATEWIDE PLANNING TO IMPLEMENTATION
• ACCESS MANAGEMENT IN SOUTH DAKOTA
• ACCESS SPACING AND SAFETY: RECENT RESEARCH RESULTS
• AN INTRODUCTION TO ACCESS MANAGEMENT
• APPLYING CONTEXT SENSITIVE HIGHWAY DESIGN TO ACHIEVE ACCESS MANAGEMENT IMPROVEMENTS
• CASE STUDIES OF ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF RAISED MEDIANS ON ADJACENT BUSINESSES: STUDY METHODOLOGY AND RESULTS
• COMPARISON OF DELAY AND ACCIDENTS ON THREE ROADWAY ACCESS DESIGNS IN SPRINGFIELD
• GEORGIA STUDY CONFIRMS THE CONTINUING SAFETY ADVANTAGE OF RAISED MEDIANS OVER TWO-WAY LEFT-TURN LANES
• INDIRECT LEFT TURNS - THE MICHIGAN EXPERIENCE
• INTEGRATED TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT
• LAND DEVELOPMENT AND ACCESS MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES FOR INTERCHANGE AREAS
• OREGON'S NEW ACCESS MANAGEMENT RULES: A STUDY IN PROCESS, POLITICS AND PRAGMATISM
• SUCCESSFUL MEDIAN MODIFICATIONS PROJECT -- CASE STUDY
• SYMBIOTIC, OPPORTUNISTIC, OMNIVORES: A PERSPECTIVE ON NEW YORK'S ARTERIAL ACCESS MANAGEMENT INITIATIVE
• THE ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF MEDIANS: AN EMPIRICAL APPROACH