Useful Transportation Planning and Access Management Links

This is an informal and unoffical  site to help those interested in the Access Management and related programs of the Florida DOT and around the country.  If you have any questions contact me by email
                     Gary Sokolow
 
Announcements, and What's New
Table of Contents
1.    Access Management Forms
2.   Great Access Management Documents 
3.   Useful Web Sites
4.   Tools You Can Use
5.   Just for Fun
 

 
Access Management Forms
FDOT Access Management Forms Page: Adobe Acrobat (non-fillable and Wordperfect for the forms that can be filled out by the public)
http://www.dot.state.fl.us/planning/systems/sm/acc_man/access%20forms.htm
FDOT Access Management - Adobe Fillable Forms  (these are NOT official, put here as a test)
 https://sokolowg.tripod.com/accessmanagement/access_forms.htm
 
 

Great Access Management Documents for your Library


Iowa's Access Management Handbook (Great Stuff - pages of useful info and pictures of good (and bad) examples)
http://www.ctre.iastate.edu/Research/access/amhandbook/index.htm

New:Iowa's Access Management Frequently asked questions on Access Management (short discussions on subjects such as radius and shared driveways, and much much more)
http://www.ctre.iastate.edu/Research/access/toolkit/index.htm

FDOT's Median Handbook (Adobe Acrobat approx. 2 Megs)
 http://www.dot.state.fl.us/planning/systems/sm/acc_man/Mhb2.PDF

Access Management, an overview ( by Elizabeth Humstone & Julie Campoli) EXCELLENT web site overview!!
 http://plannersweb.com/access/accintro.html

Land Development and Subdivision  Regulations that Support Access Management (Kristine Williams - CUTR)
Adobe Acrobat
 http://www.cutr.eng.usf.edu/research/land_reg.pdf

Economic Impacts of Access Management (Kristine Williams  - CUTR ) - Excellent summary of research from all over the US)
 http://www.cutr.eng.usf.edu/research/access_m/pdf/econeffects.pdf

Managing Corridor Development: A Municipal Handbook (CUTR - Great source on the full range of strategies in corridor management)
 http://www.cutr.eng.usf.edu/research/access_m/webgraph/corridor.pdf
 
 

Useful Web Sites

FDOT's Access Management Page
 http://www.dot.state.fl.us/planning/systems/sm/acc_man/ama2.htm

CUTRs Access Management Publication's Page - lots of great documents for your library
 http://www.cutr.eng.usf.edu/research/access_m/publicat.htm

Florida Intrastate Highway System - Florida's Strategic Highway System
http://www.dot.state.fl.us/planning/Systems/fihs/FIHS.htm
 

New: Portland's Blue Bike Lanes


Portland's Blue Bike Lanes
http://www.trans.ci.portland.or.us/Traffic_Management/Bicycle_Program/bluebike.htm

Acrobat Report on Blue Bike Lanes
 http://www.trans.ci.portland.or.us/Traffic_Management/Bicycle_Program/Bluelane.pdf

Boston Metro Article on Blue Lanes
http://massbikeboston.org/program/intersections.htm

AASHTO Investigation of Blue Lanes
http://safetyplan.tamu.edu/browse/bdprgpub.asp?ele=usr&prgpub=1530&pver=0
 
 
 

Tools You Can Use

Spreadsheet for Trip Generation (Based on ITE 6th Edition)- Lotus 1-2-3 but easily translated to Excel.
 http://www.dot.state.fl.us/planning/systems/sm/acc_man/tripcal6.wk4

Just for Fun


New:Exploding Whale Sources[The Exploding Whale]
http://pfoo.com/whale/
New:Computer Video Files of Whale
http://pfoo.com/whale/video.html
New:Actual Video 11.1 Megs (Quicktime)
http://pfoo.com/whale/whale-hi-521227.mov

Louie Louie
The MP3 for the original
 https://sokolowg.tripod.com/louielouie_richard_barry.mp3

The Louie Louie Pages
Click Here to go to Louie Louie

New:Great Advertisements
Ad Critic - link to the best Superbowl Ads
http://www.adcritic.com/
 

Link to download the best TV Commercials of the Superbowl 34 2000(Including the Cat Hearders)
http://www.superbowl-ads.com/articles_2000/qtlist2000.html
 

Any questions?
Contact Gary Sokolow