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<br />Access management is accomplished through the following: <br />. Medians. <br />. Auxiliary lanes. <br />. Signal spacing. <br />· Driveway location and design. <br />. Driveway spacing. <br />. Comer clearance. <br />. Reverse frontage or backage roads <br />. Internal circulation and connectivity of individual businesses. <br /> <br />Eflective access management versus roads with little or no access management has the <br />following benefits: <br /> <br />. Reduces crashes by as much as 50%. <br />. Increases capacity by 20-45%. <br />. Extends the life of the highway. <br />. Treats access applications and types of accesses consistently. <br />. Reduces travel time and delay by 40-60%. <br />· Decreases fuel consumption by as mueh as 35%. <br />. Reduces driver stress. <br />. Reduces vehicular emissions. <br />. Reduces transportation costs. <br />. Protects investment in abutting property. <br />. Maximizes the economic value of property by providing bettcr coordination <br />between <br />. transportation and adjoining land uses. <br /> <br />An effective access management policy must be consistent in the way it treats types of <br />accesses, density and spacing of accesses, and the application process for accesses. When <br />an exception is made, it must be for a logical and defensible reason. Lack of consistency <br />makes it more difficult to enforce the policy. <br /> <br />3 <br />