NEW YORK, Jan. 6, 2003 (PRIMEZONE) -- Urbitran Associates has completed development of specialized "Impact Calculator" Access Management software for the Transportation Research Board (TRB), under the auspices of the National Academies. This software provides a set of tools to help transportation planners and engineers calculate the effects of changing access conditions along a road. The software is proving to be a valuable resource for transportation agencies, real estate developers, and other organizations concerned with highway capacity and safety.
Urbitran's Planning Group developed this software to complement National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 420, Impacts of Access Management Techniques (IAMT). Urbitran was also the prime contractor on the report, which listed and classified more than 100-highway access management techniques. Available on CD, the IAMT "Calculator" estimates the safety, operational, and economic impacts of locating driveways, signalized intersections, and unsignalized intersections along a road. The "Calculator" is organized to help quantify the impacts of techniques and decisions regarding access management on specified projects, viewed generally as one section of roadway, from a beginning to an ending milepost.
According to Ray Derr, NCHRP Project Manager, "The Impact Calculator will allow planners to quickly estimate how different driveway configurations will affect the safety of the public driving down the street. Decision-makers will find this information very helpful in planning safe and effective ways for customers to get to businesses."
The software is available for purchase directly from TRB through its website, http://trb.org/
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