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Most of the documents on our Resources page are available for download in pdf file format .

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Guide for Analysis of Corridor Management Policies and Practices

This guide includes a work plan for assessing local government land development and access management practices. It also addresses how to prepare a conceptual plan for implementing corridor management at the local level. The objective of this guide is to help state transportation agencies and local governments identify and overcome barriers to effective corridor access management in the land development process. It is also intended to strengthen state and local coordination in access and development permitting.

Kristine Williams, CUTR
Click here to view .pdf report (May 2007)

Interstate I-394 Business Impact Study

This study attempts to capture the economic climate along the corridor both before and after conversion to a freeway. A variety of macro and micro level indicators were used to take snapshots of the corridor’s economic health both before and after freeway conversion.

Click here to view .pdf report (June 2007)

In Section 2.4 some of conclusions were:

The economic impacts (mainly involving land development and business sales) of
transportation projects have not been researched as extensively as the safety and operational
impacts.
The business impacts studies that have been performed in states such as Florida, Iowa,
Kansas, and Texas have similarly concluded that businesspersons’ perceptions of the
impacts of changes in access on their companies are almost always worse than the actual
impacts as measured after the fact.
Before and after studies of transportation projects involving changes in access indicate that
such projects do not lead to significant increases in business failure rates.
Research also indicates that businesses along and near access-managed corridors do not
suffer inordinate retail sales losses. In fact, businesses along newly access-managed
corridors in Iowa actually outperformed other businesses in their communities in terms of
sales growth.
Literature on the impacts of transportation accessibility on land values suggests that such
impacts would be very difficult to demonstrate either in a positive or negative direction.
Variables such as parcel size and the overall location of the parcel would appear to matter
more.

Direct link to MnDOT Report http://www.olmweb.dot.state.mn.us/pdf/FINAL_I-394_Business_Impact_Study.pdf
Prepared by CH2M HILL and CTRE for MnDOT

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TRB Access Management Manual

The "must have" book for every transportation engineer and planner.

Link to download 10 Principles animation

Transportation Research Board's Access Management Manual provides technical information on access management techniques, together with information on how access management programs can be effectively developed and administered. It presents access management comprehensively, in an effort to integrate planning and engineering practices with the transportation and land use decisions that contribute to access outcomes.

Click here for more information about the TRB Access Management Manual.

Access Management Principles

Animation describing Access Management Principles

Download the animation from this home page to use in your Powerpoint Presentation! The stand-alone executable file can be also run as a separate program.

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State Websites

Links to Access Management Materials from across the country click here

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NCHRP Report 548

A Guidebook for Including Access Management in Transportation Planning 12/23/2005 TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 548: A Guidebook for Including Access Management in Transportation Planning offers guidance for implementing access management through the transportation planning process.

VIEW THE DOCUMENT NCHRP Report 548

FIND MORE INFORMATION AT: -> http://www.trb.org/news/blurb_detail.asp?id=5706
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NCHRP Report 351

Access Rights
11/30/2005 TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 351 examines issues involved in acquiring access rights along roadways other than freeways. The report documents the state of the practice with the intent to limit the amount of access to the roadway for the purpose of managing highway safety and mobility. The report documents successful practices and current policies, legal and real estate literature, and other publications that address this subject.

VIEW THE DOCUMENT NCHRP Report 351

FIND MORE INFORMATION AT: -> http://www.trb.org/news/blurb_detail.asp?id=5618
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DVD Library

The Access Management DVD Library contains a wealth of access management documents and resources. Proceedings are included from each national access management conference, as well as the leading handbooks from around the country.

You may obtain free copies of the DVD Library by contacting Neil Spiller at Neil.Spiller@fhwa.dot.gov or for more information about the disc, please contact Frank Broen at fbroen@teachamerica.com.

Click here to view Video Tour of the 2004 DVD.

Highlights from the Access Management DVD Library 2007 include:

Contents of DVD Library
7th National Conference Proceedings
1st – 6th National Conference Proceedings
74 AV Presentations
8 NCHRP Reports
FHWA VIdeo "Safe Access is Good for Business"
Video Tour
Library Tour
Search Index for Acrobat 5, 6, 7
Excel Menus
Total Documents	500+
Total Pages	>28,000

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NCHRP Reports

NCHRP Reports and Synthesis documents about access management

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)

NCHRP Synthesis 299 Recent Geometric Design Research for Improved Safety and Operations (2001)

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National Access Management Conference Proceedings (1993-2006)

1993 - 1rst National Conference Vail Colorado (large file 26.5 MB)

1996 - 2nd National Conference Vail, Colorado (large file 12.9 MB)

1998 - 3rd National Conference Ft. Lauderdale, Florida(large file 37.8 MB)

2000 - 4th National Conference Portland, Oregon (large file 24.4 MB)

2002 - 5th National Conference Austin, Texas (large file 12.7 MB)

2004 - 6th National Conference Kansas City, Missouri On-line Presentations

2006 - 7th National Conference Park City, Utah On-line Presentations

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Selected Documents

Selected Access Management Papers

History of Access Management - (44 KB)

Economic Impacts of Access Management - (33 KB)

Public Information Meetings for Access Management (Top Ten Complaints)
On-line Presentation

Oregon Access Management Research Papers (www.odot.state.or.us/tdb/planning/access_mgt/papers/papers.html)

Effective Strategies for Comprehensive Corridor Management
(the complete ESCCM 20 MB document with appendices is found at www.cutr.usf.edu)

Assess the Need for Implementing an Access Management Program (19 MB)

"The Case for Access Management" John Heilman (http://oki.org/transportation/caseforaccess.html)

Selected Research Reports

Land Development and Access Management Strategies for Interchange Areas -(14.7 MB)

Best Practices in Local Corridor Preservation - (373 KB)

BD545-14, Development of Guidelines for Driveway Location and Median Configuration in the Vicinity of Interchanges (2006)
Summary: FDOT_BD545_14.pdf (30 KB)
Final Report: FDOT_BD545_14_rpt.pdf (1.8 MB)

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