Features
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President’s
Message
By Paul Eng-Wong, P.E. (F)
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Access Management—An Overview
By Kristine M. Williams, AICP and
Herbert S. Levinson, P.E., N.A.E., (H)
Encompassing so much more than simply the control of driveways,
access management can improve mobility, ease congestion,
and improve the aesthetics of a community, among other things. |
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Access Management Techniques: Preserving Roadway Safety and Mobility
By Vergil G. Stover, Ph.D., P.E. (FL)
A variety of methods and techniques can be used to maintain
the function of a roadway system and to preserve the safety of,
and mobility provided by, a roadway. |
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Effects and Impacts of Access Management
By J. L. Gattis, Ph.D., P.E. and Jerome S. Gluck, P.E., PTOE
Studies have shown that access management—the systematic
control of the location, spacing, design and operation of driveways,
median openings, interchanges and street connections to
a roadway—improves the safety and the mobility of a roadway. |
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Practices in Access Management
By Philip Demosthenes
Access management is a set of strategies to reduce roadway
conflicts by controlling the location and design of all points of
access to the roadway. For a state or local agency to incorporate
its strategies and design criteria on a daily basis, a program
needs to be established. |
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In Search of Sustainability
By Alan E. Pisarski
Although the term sustainability has been with us for at
least 20 years, there is no agreed-upon sense of the boundaries
of the topic. This article reports on a scan of the
literature and Web products to assess the characteristics of
sustainability practices in the United States and the world. |
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January 2010
Vol. 80 (1)
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