Conferences

AM Conferences The national access management conferences are held once every two years. These conferences are an opportunity to get the latest information on access management and to share experiences and advice with others involved in access management. Hosting a national access management conference is an excellent way to stimulate interest about access management in your state and region.

Click here for on-line information to register for the Eighth National Access Management Conference in Baltimore, MD on July 13-16, 2008.

Click here for on-line information on access management sessions and presentations from the Seventh National Access Management Conference held in Park City Utah in 2006.

Click here for on-line information on access management sessions and presentations from the Sixth National Access Management Conference held in Kansas in 2004

Meetings

2008 Annual Meeting of TRB Committee AHB70, “Access Management”
January 24, 200 6 7:30p.m., Washington , DC

Click a function title to retrieve details.
No.	Sponsor	Function Title	Location	Time
	AHB70	Research Subcommittee, AHB70(2)	H - Farragut	Monday, 8:00 AM–9:45 AM

	AHB70	National Conference on Access Management Subcommittee, AHB70(1)	H - Farragut	Monday, 10:15 AM–12:00 PM

	AHB70	Access Management Manual Subcommittee, AHB70(5)	H - Farragut	Monday, 3:45 PM–5:30 PM

361	AFB70	Transportation-Related Right-of-Way Issues	S - Empire	Monday, 3:45 PM–5:30 PM

592	ABJ95	Intersection Mega Session, Part 2: Sharing Advancements in Design, Safety, and Operations (Part 1, Session 570; see also Session 383)	M - Delaware A	Tuesday, 7:30 PM–9:30 PM

	AHB70	Access Management Committee	H - Georgetown South	Wednesday, 8:00 AM–12:00 PM

698	AHB70	Access Management Along Major Highway Corridors	H - Lincoln West	Wednesday, 2:30 PM–4:00 PM

727	AHB70	Access Management Along Urban Arterial Roadways	H - Lincoln West	Wednesday, 4:30 PM–6:00 PM

	ANB75T	Roundabouts Task Force	M - Maryland B	Wednesday, 7:30 PM–9:30 PM

Hotels: Marriott (M), Hilton (H), Shoreham (S)

AHB70 Sponsored by Committee on Access Management

Resource Documents for 2008 TRB Annual Meeting:

Mid Year Meeting in Seattle

Our midyear meetings were held in conjunction with the 3rd Urban Street Symposium, June 24-27, 2007 (www.urbanstreet.info). Kay Fitzpatrick, Jim Gattis and team put on a great conference, including several access management sessions and papers.

Teleconference

Every three months, there is a national Access Management Teleconference for professionals. The teleconference is about an hour in duration and is a forum for those involved in access management to share information and ideas. For further information on upcoming teleconferences or to place a topic on the agenda contact Phil Demosthenes.

Training

Training

Those interested in obtaining training in access management should consider the three-day short course 'Access Management, Location and Design (Course #133078), which is offered by the National Highway Institute (NHI). An electronic copy of the materials from past NHI courses have been included in the Access Management CD Library.

Roundabout Conference (2005)

Click here for the National Roundabout Conference Draft Proceedings. The National Roundabout Conference held in Vail, Colorado was sponsored by the Transportation Research Board in cooperation with the Federal Highway Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation.

Some of the comments from participants at the final Town Hall meeting included:

I am surprised at how few drawbacks there are to roundabouts!
It takes a holistic design, all parts are important
A peer review is important
The need for uniformity in signing and striping and lighting
The public doesn't like the idea of a roundabout, but once built, they love it!

To view the proceedings from the conference:
http://teachamerica.com/Roundabouts/RA_Conference.htm

Research

The TRB Access Management Committee has a Subcommittee on Research that works with state transportation agencies and others to facilitate needed research on a range of access management topics.

Current Access Management Research Projects:

NCHRP Synthesis 304 Driveway Regulation Practices (2002)

NCHRP Synthesis 332 Access Management on Crossroads in the Vicinity of Interchanges (2004)

NCHRP Synthesis 337 Cooperative Agreements for Corridor Management (2004)

NCHRP Report 348 Access Management Guidelines for Activity Centers (1992)

NCHRP Synthesis 351 Access Rights, A Synthesis of Highway Practice (2005)

NCHRP Report 395 Capacity and Operation Effect of Midblock Left Turns (1997)

NCHRP Report 420 Impacts of Access Management Techniques. (1999)

NCHRP Report 504 Design Speed, Operating Speed, and Posted Speed Practices (2003)

NCHRP Report 524 Safety of U-Turns at Unsignalized Median Openings (2004)

NCHRP Report 548 A Guidebook for Including Access Management in Transportation Planning (2005)

Transportation Research Circular 456 Driveway and Street Intersection Spacing (1996)