FRONTAGE ROADS IN TEXAS: A COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT

摘要: A policy of building frontage roads alongside freeway mainlanes avoids the purchase access rights when upgrading existing highways to standards, and generally supplements local street networks. It also may affect corridor operations, land values, development patterns. This paper seeks provide a comprehensive evaluation road design policies by summarizing research results related legal statutes affecting public roadways, discussing practices across states, comparing operations corridors with without roads, studies on access-right valuation, evaluating construction cost distinctions. literature review concluded that wide variety options are available agencies for limiting improving flow safety along corridors. Statistical analyses paired suggested near is associated lower household incomes, population densities, percentages bike trips work, vehicle occupancies work trips, higher unemployment rates than those roads. Lower employment densities emerged were present. Operational simulations various systems demonstrated improve operation in heavily developed areas, but not moderately areas (e.g., purely residential). Arterial these supplemented thus performed better their presence. The financial costs frontage-road facilities found be considerably non-frontage-road facilities, except cases extremely high values. hoped results, addition efforts other researchers, will assist constructing solid, formal all states regions follow providing new freeways decades come.