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While I recommend gathering and using the following resources, I don't necessarily agree with all parts of these documents or their recommendations, but I have found them useful. I have been involved in the access programs of many states. I have learned that collecting paragraphs, standards and procedures from the programs of others and using them in other jurisdictions will not work very well unless carefully adjusted to consider the legal, political and social framework of the state and preferences of the adopting agency.

I have many of these documents and can provide them upon request. The larger ones may be easier to download from their original source. First try http://www.accessmanagement.info/resources.html

March 2010) Access Management in Vicinity of Intersections. from FHWA Office of Safety. http://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/intersection/resources/fhwasa10002/

Two new 2010 Roundabout Publications from FHWA Office of Safety http://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/intersection/roundabouts/

A new TRB/NCHRP report for 2010. Median Intersection Design for Rural High-Speed Divided Highways Applies to (access management) design decisions at intersections. http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/nchrp/nchrp_rpt_650.pdf

New FHWA publication: Alternative Intersections/Interchanges http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/research/safety/09060/09060.pdf

   "Safe Access is Good for Business, FHWA-HOP-06-107, Federal Highway Administration, Washington, DC, 2006 http://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/access_mgmt/ This site also has other access management materials and links. 
     The best complete collection of access management reports, presentations, references and conference proceeding, most as PDF downloads, can be found at: http://www.accessmanagement.info
     There is a bi-annual TRB National Conference on Access Management. The next conference will be held in Natchez, Mississippi, October 13-16, 2010. http://www.accessmanagement.info
     "Urban Street Geometric Design Handbook", Chapter 3, Access Management, Institute of Transportation Engineers, Washington, DC, U.S.A. 2008
     "Traffic Engineering Handbook" Chapter 13, Access Management, 6th edition Institute of Transportation Engineers, Washington, DC, U.S.A., 2009
     "Transportation and Land Development", 2nd Edition, Stover and Koepke, Institute of Transportation Engineers, Washington, DC, U.S.A., 2002
     "Access Management Manual", second edition, Transportation Research Board, National Research Council, Washington, DC, U.S.A.,
     "Impacts of Access Management Techniques, NCHRP Report 420, Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC, U.S.A., 1999
    "Driveway and Street Intersection Spacing", Transportation Research Circular #456, Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC, U.S.A., March 1996
     "The Driveway Handbook, Florida Department of Transportation, Tallahassee, FL,
     "Land Development Regulations that Promote Access Management, NCHRP Synthesis 233, Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC, U.S.A., 1996
     "Corridor Management", NCHRP Synthesis 289, Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC, U.S.A., 2000
     "Recent Geometric Design Research for Improved Safety and Operations, NCHRP Synthesis 299, Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC, U.S.A., 2001
     "Driveway Regulation Practices, NCHRP Synthesis 304, Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC, U.S.A., 2002
     "Access Management Guidelines for Activity Centers, NCHRP Report 348, Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC, U.S.A., 1992
     "Safety of U-turns at Unsignalized Median Openings, National Cooperative Highway Research Program, Washington DC 2004
     "Access Management on Crossroads in the Vicinity of Interchanges, NCHRP Synthesis 332, Washington DC 2004.
     "Access Rights, A Synthesis of Highway Practice, NCHRP Synthesis 351, Washington DC 2005
     "Guidebook for Including Access Management in Transportation Planning, NCHRP Report 548, National Cooperative Highway Research Program, Washington DC 2005
     "Incorporating Safety into Long-Range Transportation Planning, NCHRP Report 546, National Cooperative Highway Research Program, Washington DC 2006
     "Intersection Safety Issues Brief #8: Toolbox of Countermeasures and Their Potential Effectiveness to Make Intersections Safer, FHWA and ITE 2004.
     "The Access Management Guidebook: Reducing Traffic Congestion and Improving Traffic Safety in Michigan Communities, Planning and Zoning Center, Inc., for the Michigan DOT, 2001.
     "Planning and Designing Access to Developments" Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure, British Columbia, Canada.  

     Notes: All NCHRP reports are for sale at: http://www.nationalacademies.org/publications/
and some are free as PDFs at www.accessmanagement.info
     Information on obtaining publications from the Institute of Transportation Engineers can be found at http://www.ite.org
     National Highway Institute Course #133078A "Access Management, Location and Design", includes an excellent and recently revised class notebook. http://www.nhi.fhwa.dot.gov 
The best collection of access management reports, presentations, references and conference proceeding can be found at: http://www.accessmanagement.info  Many of the most recent access research and topic papers are available directly from this web site as PDF downloads.;
     "The bi-annual TRB National Conference on Access Management,. Next conference will be held in Natchez, Mississippi, October 13-16, 2010. Visit the web site: http://www.accessmanagement.info
     Publications from the Urban Land Institute can be found at www.uli.org
 
Selected Paper Publications by Philip Demosthenes: Please contact me or go to the listed source for a PDF edition.  

"Why Access Management". An article published in the Tech Transfer Newsletter of the Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California at Berkeley. July 2003.

"How Planning Decisions Impact Highway Collision Histories", published as conference proceedings of the 2nd Urban Street Symposium, July 28, 2003, Anaheim, California.

"Access Management - Statute Prototypes and Regulatory Elements". Published in the Appendix of the "Access Management Manual", Transportation Research Board, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., May 2003.

"Access Management - Statute Prototypes and Regulatory Elements" Presented at the 5th Nation Conference on Access Management, Austin, Texas. June 2002, and published in conference proceedings.

"Access Management Policies: An Historical Perspective". Prepared for the International Right-of-Way Association Conference, June 23, 1999 Albuquerque, NM and published in the conference proceedings.

"Designing Safer Highways; The Application of Access Management Principals", International Highway Engineering Exchange Program, September 1998 Conference, published in conference proceedings.

Demosthenes, P. and Elizer, M., Chapter 3, Access Management. Institute of Transportation Engineers, "Urban Street Geometric Design Handbook" (2008).

Demosthenes, P. and Stover, V., Access Management Chapter, Institute of Transportation Engineers, "Traffic Engineering Handbook" (2009).

"Practices in Access Management," article in the ITE Journal, Institute of Transportation Engineers, January 2010.


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