Investigation of the Impact of Frontage Roads as an Element of Controlled Access Facilities

摘要: This research investigated frontage roads as an element of limited-access highway design with objective providing a comprehensive evaluation frontage-road policies and the legal, financial, land-development, operational issues associated such policies. paper summarizes effort by reviewing legal statutes affecting public access to roadways, summarizing practices across states, comparing land development operations corridors without roads, studies on access-rights valuation, evaluating construction cost distinctions. In first year this 2-year project, extensive literature review was conducted in order ascertain current attitudes strategies involving roads. information is presented here place work its proper context. Subsequent sections detail results investigations into policies, corridor development, safety, operations, costs. The report concludes overall assessment competing factors recommendations for future