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This webinar was co-sponsored by ASCE's Transportation and Development Institute (T&DI) and ASCE Continuing Education
Instructor: Philip Demosthenes
Course Length: 1.5 Hours
Purpose and Background
Managing access to and from the roadway is a critical component to the long term functional integrity and preservation of roadway operation. Regardless of the engineering solutions identified, project engineers are often faced with non-engineering difficulties when attempting to modify, relocate and close access points or adding raised medians. Access changes and restrictive operational design elements such as raised medians, while benefiting the roadway and traffic operations, most often become difficult to achieve due to non-engineering factors such as property rights, political pressure and other social issues. Often, efforts to improve roadway design fail due to these non-engineering factors.
The benefits to the roadway due to the application of access management strategies are significant. Depending on the existing design and conditions and the degree of proposed application of access management strategies, the client can expect a 30 to 60 percent reduction in total crashes and a 20 to 40 percent increase in capacity. In these days of improving existing roadways in lieu of major reconstruction, access management plays an important role in recapturing needed mobility and safety along an arterial corridor with the least amount of cost and impacts.
The webinar discussion will include the application of access management to a project corridor. Design, legal and land-use elements will be illustrated. Discussion will include how to deal with design constrains created by claims of access rights, reduction in property values, and social and political resistance to change. References will be provided that include the most useful sources of information.
Learning Outcomes and Seminar Benefits
Participants in this webinar will learn how to be more successful in the application of design strategies for the implementation of improved access management along a corridor improvement project. The webinar will introduce participants to the various sources of access management design strategies and legal and transportation planning factors.
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Determine the concepts and principals of access management
- Gain improved understanding of access rights to arterials
- Have greater success in the application of access management design strategies
- Improve the long-term functional performance of roadways
- Preserve needed system capacity and reduce major reconstruction costs
Assessment of Learning Outcomes
Students' achievement of the learning outcomes will be assessed via a short post-assessment (true-false, multiple choice and fill in the blank questions).
Intended Audience
This webinar will benefit transportation professionals (engineers and planners) who work for consulting companies, cities, counties, and state agencies involved in designing roadway projects where managing access has been determined to be necessary to improve operation and public safety. This course is designed for individuals with some background in roadway design who would be interested in improving their success rate in the application of often controversial access strategies such as raised medians, access relocations and closures.
Seminar Outline
- What is access management and access control
- Benefits to the public, government and property owners
- Balancing property rights of access and police powers for public safety
- Modifying access without compensation
- Dealing with access modification damage claims
- Corridor planning practices (access management plans)
- Why access management is good for businesses and the economy
- Access management design elements for corridor projects
- Access management tool kits and other resources
- Access management application at interchange cross roads
- Winning support for access management modifications
- How system level access standards help project application
How to Earn your CEUs/PDHs and Receive Your Certificate of Completion
To receive your certificate of completion, you will need to complete a short on-line post-test and receive a passing score of 70% or higher within 1 year of purchasing the course.
How do I convert CEUs to PDHs?
1.0 CEU = 10 PDHs [Example: 0.1 CEU = 1 PDH]