Access management, ‘the coordinated planning, regulation, and design of access between roadways and land development’, is an integrated approach that can be used to alleviate both the safety and operational issues on urban arterials. In addition to safety issues, urban arterials also experience high levels of congestion, increased travel times, and stopped delays. Many of these crashes are access-related and the number of crashes related to improper access control varies from state to state. These characteristics cause high crash rates in urban arterials. Urban arterials typically have closely spaced signallised intersections, high traffic volumes, and driveway densities. On the basis of the simulation analysis, it was found that converting driveway access from fully open to right-in–right-out based on prevailing traffic conditions in a CV environment can improve traffic operations. a restriction enforced during the time intervals in which traffic flow rates exceed given thresholds) of driveways to right-in–right-out in a CV environment. The analysis is applied to an urban corridor under four scenarios: (i) the existing condition with direct left turns (DLTs) permitted at all driveways, (ii) a raised median restricting all driveway traffic to right-in–right-out and U-turns permitted at signallised intersections, (iii) a peak-hour DLT restriction at all driveways, and (iv) dynamic restriction (i.e. This study investigates the effectiveness of the connected vehicle (CV)-supported dynamic access control. While past research has shown the operational benefits of this strategy, it has not been evaluated in the context of dynamic access control. One such strategy is to restrict traffic entering the urban arterial to ‘right-in–right-out’ through implementing a raised median. In urban arterials, safety and operational issues can be improved by access management strategies.

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