Engineering Professional Programs

Course Faculty: Vergil Stover and Robert Layton

The course will cover the issues involved in access management of major roadways in rural, suburban and urban environments. The benefits of good access management will be presented and current policies, practices and standards of selected states and local access management programs will be discussed. You will also review principles of design for direct access connections to the public roadway system. A range of access management techniques will be considered, and you will view sketches and photographs of many of the techniques. “Before” and “after” case studies will be used to illustrate the effect of retrofit projects. “Lessons learned” and guidelines for developing and administering an effective access management program are also covered.

Participants will receive a 790 page notebook that will serve as the course notes as well as provide reference document after completing the course. The notebook contains 600 tables, figures and photographs. Extensive coverage is devoted to some seventy-nine access management techniques including sketches, photographs, examples of agency practices and suggested applications.

At the conclusion of the course, participants will be familiar with the advantages of implementing good access management practices. They will also be able to assess the safety and impact of various access management techniques, and will have new strategies for implementing an effective access management program.

Course Topics

Benefits of access management

Functional roadway classification

Functional intersection area

Warrants for and design of auxiliary lanes

Sight distance issues

Signalized access spacing

Unsignalized access spacing

Driveway location and design

Access management techniques

Retrofit projects

Solving existing problems

Elements of a successful program/lessons learned

Who Should Attend

This course is appropriate for state, county and municipal transportation professional involved in roadway design, traffic engineering or review and approval of access to proposed development. Consulting engineers, planners, architects and consultants involved with the development of sites abutting highways or the preparation, review and approval of corridor management plans will also benefit from this course.

Continuing Education Units and Professional Development Hours

Course participants will earn 2.1 CEUs/21 PDHs upon successful completion of this course. The CEU is a nationally recognized measure of participation in a noncredit continuing education program that meets established criteria for increasing knowledge and competency.