Frontage roads: Assessment of legal issues, design decisions, costs, operations, and land-development differences

Journal of Transportation Engineering

Volumn 129, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 242-252

  Kockelman, Kara M ^a   Machemehl, Randy ^a   Overman, Aaron W ^b   Sesker, Jacob ^a   Madi, Marwan ^b   Peterman, Jean ^c   Handy, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b AECOM   (United States)

^c Texas Dept of Transportation   (United States)

Author keywords

Costs; Decision making; Highway design; Interstate highways; Laws; Road; Transportation corridors

Indexed keywords

COSTS; DECISION MAKING; HIGHWAY ENGINEERING; PUBLIC POLICY; ROAD CONSTRUCTION;

FRONTAGE ROADS;

ROADS AND STREETS;

DESIGN; LEGISLATION; ROAD CONSTRUCTION; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037954345     PISSN: 0733947X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-947X(2003)129:3(242)     Document Type: Article

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