TRB's newest publications on access management draw on national and state research to respond to the need for a more coordinated approach to transportation and community design that preserves the safe and efficient movement of peoples and goods, provides supporting networks in developed areas, and reinforces desired urban form.
Designing Walkable Urban Thoroughfares: A Context Sensitive Approach
An ITE Recommended Practice
Objectives of this Report
The objectives of this report are to
Transportation professionals today are faced with the challenge to meet the mobility needs of an ever increasing population with limited resources. One potential treatment to mitigate congestion and safety problems at rural expressway intersections, while trying to avoid signalization or grade‐separation, is the J‐Turn intersection treatment, which has been successfully implemented in Michigan, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, and Louisiana.
The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) Complete Streets Handbook and new FDOT Design Manual will help us provide more context-sensitive roads by putting "the right street in the right place." This draft document is under review until July 31, 2017
FDOT Complete Streets Policy Adopted September 17, 2014
Executive Summary
This Handbook was prepared by FDOT District 1
The Handbook is designed to generally follow the chronological order of process needed through the pre-application, application review, permit approval, and driveway construction processes.
Chapters
CH1 Introduction
CH2 Pre-Application Procedures
CH3 Permit Submittal Requirements
CH4 Completeness & Technical Reviews
CH5 Notice of Intent
CH6 Permit Approval and Issuance
CH7 Construction Requirements
CH8 Violations
These standards and guidelines have been developed to establish uniformity for encroachments upon roads in the South Carolina State Highway System so as to provide for the safe and efficient movement of traffic while allowing reasonable access to abutting property. This document does provide a majority of the information needed for encroachments onto the State Highway System.
Recent changes include:
TRB's Access Management Application Guidelines (AMAG) focuses on the applications of access management concepts and provides research-based guidelines on access management treatments and procedures for their applications. The AMAG is a how-to tool for continuing the evolution of access management applications in the United States.
TRH 26 South African Road Classification and Access Management Manual
Technical Recommendations for Highways:
South African Traffic Impact and Site Traffic Assessment Standards and Requirements Manual
Technical Recommendations for Highways:
The Technical Recommendations for Highways consists of a series of publications that describe recommended practice for various aspects related to highway engineering. The documents are based on South African research and experience and have the support and approval of the Committee of Transport Officials (COTO). The documents are primarily aimed at ensuring uniform practice throughout South Africa.
Technical Recommendations for Highways:
The Technical Recommendations for Highways consists of a series of publications that describe recommended practice for various aspects related to highway engineering. The documents are based on South African research and experience and have the support and approval of the Committee of Transport Officials (COTO). The documents are primarily aimed at ensuring uniform practice throughout South Africa.
Synopsis:
TRH 27 South African Manual for Permitting Services in Road Reserves
Technical Recommendations for Highways:
The Technical Recommendations for Highways consists of a series of publications that describe recommended practice for various aspects related to highway engineering. The documents are based on South African research and experience and have the support and approval of the Committee of Transport Officials (COTO). The documents are primarily aimed at ensuring uniform practice throughout South Africa.
Synopsis:
APPLYING DESIGN FLEXIBILITY & REDUCING CONFLICTS
FHWA-HEP-16-055 Aug 2016
This resource provides practical real-world planning and design information to help communities achieve connected pedestrian and bicycle networks. These networks help people of all ages and abilities get where they need to go, including to and from jobs, school, grocery stores, health care, recreation, and transit. Complete multimodal networks enhance access to opportunity for everyone and help reconnect communities.
The Intersections Joint Subcommittee has an online manual that provides state of the art guidance on unsignalized intersections.
TRB’s Access Management Manual, second edition, provides guidance on a coordinated approach to transportation and community design that is designed to help enhance mobility, provide greater mode choice, and improve environmental quality. The content is interdisciplinary, with guidance pertinent to various levels of government as well as to pedestrians, bicyclists, and motorized vehicles, including trucks and buses. Access management is addressed comprehensively, as a critical part of network and land use planning. Key updates include
Florida DOT has updated their Median Handbook. Entirely focused on that challenging topic.
The purpose of the Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT) Access Management Manual is to set out standards for managing access to and from state roads and highways.
Goals of access management include:
Alabama Department of Transportation Access Design and Management Manual
1 Introduction
TRB'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.
ICF Consulting. Congestion Management Systems: Innovative Practices, Prepared for the New York State Association of MPOs, (August 2005)
Florida Department of Transportation. Access Transit: Design Guidelines for Florida Bus Passenger Facilities, Florida State University, (2004)
Florida Department of Transportation, District 4, Transit Facilities Guidelines, Version 3, (October 2007) http://www.dot.state.fl.us/transit/Pages/UpdatedD4TransitFacilitiesGuidelines.pdf
Seattle Transit Master Plan: Briefing Book, prepared by Nelson\Nygaard Assoc for the Seattle Department of Transportation, Washington (2011)
This guide includes information relative to the location, design and spacing of transit stops for various forms of transit service. For example:
Nelson\Nygaard Consulting Associates, Inc. (2011). Seattle Transit Master Plan Briefing Book. Seattle: Seattle Department of Transportation.
Adirondack/Glen Falls Transportation Council, Access Management Guide, December 15, 2007
The guide includes a section entitled Access Management & Transit, Bicyclists and Pedestrians. An extract is included below.
Indiana Access Management Study, prepared by Urbitrans, Inc. for the Indiana Department of Transportation (2006) http://www.in.gov/indot/2512.htm
Florida Department of Transportation, Transportation Site Impact Handbook (2014)
