Effective ingress and egress management along highways and major arterial roads are essential for minimizing road-user conflicts. Closely spaced driveways, median openings across turn lanes, and driveways near major intersections are examples of poorly designed access features that contribute to unsafe, unsightly, and congested roadways. Access management techniques—used to minimize potential conflict points—help reduce crashes, preserve roadway capacity, improve corridor aesthetics, and reduce congestion. Well-managed transportation corridors also benefit from more stable property values, less delay to freight movers and the commuting public, and better market reach for retail businesses. 

NCHRP Research Report 1032: How to Measure and Communicate the Value of Access Management contains a guide for practitioners on use of an online Access Management Communication Toolkit (AMC Toolkit) and is designed to help public agency staff and their consultants more easily understand, measure, and communicate the value of access management techniques when developing or implementing access management plans, programs, or projects. Although the Toolkit and its supporting materials are designed to be readily applied by practitioners, an initial training effort is required to provide a strong foundation for ongoing implementation.

To help with the above, the following tasks are proposed: 

1.     Development of training materials based on the toolkit and supporting materials.

2.     Conduct of 4 pilots on the training materials with transportation agencies drawn from different AASHTO regions. This provides opportunities to refine the training materials and sets the stage for the case study that will be developed by each lead agency.

3.     Working with the 4 pilot agencies, develop ways to implement the toolkit unique to each agency.  As part of this effort, each agency will also develop a business case for their project based on a template that can be readily adapted by others.

4.     Conduct of an online exchange between all participants during which each participating agency hears the case study reports of the others and delivers their own. Each participating agency will also identify the most valuable elements of the Toolkit and its limitations or areas that would benefit from additional research and development.