The safety, mobility, and economic benefits of applying access management are documented, known, and compelling; yet, state and local agencies encounter many challenges in achieving desirable access management outcomes. There are many reasons for this. Successful access management requires effective cross-functional management, cooperation, and coordination among different units of government and decisionmaking at the system level. It is harder to be successful with access management when policy decisions are made at the point of implementation—when a permit is approved, a site plan reviewed, or a highway project designed. In most agencies, there is an established policy and planning process that defines the authority and business rules for the development and operation of the transportation system. Our research finds that there is great opportunity to realize the benefits from access management when transportation agency managers, planners, and access management proponents use the transportation planning process to drive the implementation of access management. This guidebook shows how this can be accomplished and provides practical guidance to support implementation. (Author/publisher) This report may be accessed by Internet users at http://gulliver.trb.org/publications/nchrp/nchrp_rpt_548.pdf
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