Project Goals & Objectives
Goal 1: Improve existing and future safety conditions within the corridors.
Access management is a tool to minimize access-related accidents. Points of conflict increase as areas along the highway become more commercialized and densely populated. Each new access point added to an undivided roadway in an urban and suburban area increases the annual accident rate by 11 to 18 percent on that roadway segment.
Objectives:
- Identify locations with high accident rates and develop measures to minimize conflicts
- Improve safety by upgrading to applicable design and access control standards
- Improve operating characteristics of the corridors
- Provide for efficient emergency evacuation
