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<br /> <br />Roads serve two primary purposes. One is <br />mobility and the other is access. lvlobility is the <br />efficient movement of people and goods. Access is <br />getting those people and goods to specific properties. <br />A roadway designed to maximize mobility typically <br />does so in part by managing access to adjacent <br />properties. A good example is an Interstate Highway. <br />While a motorist could expect to tra vel quite efficiently' <br />over a long distance using an Interstate Highway; the <br />number of access points is restricted to only freeway <br />interchanges every f~w miles. This type of roadway <br />serves primarily a mobility function. At the other <br />extreme, a local residential street would provide easy <br />and plentiful access to all adjacent properties, but long <br />distance travel on such ,,1 roadway would be <br />impossible. This type of roadway serves primarily an <br />access function. <br /> <br />Most state roads serve a function somewhere <br />between the hlterstate Highway and the local road <br />described above. One of the most important <br />responsibilities of the Florida Department of <br />Transportation (FOOT) is to ensure that the design <br />of each state road properly balances access and <br />mobility. Access management is used to provide <br />this very important balance. <br /> <br />Many business and property oW~1ers have <br />expressed concerns regarding the FDOT access <br />management polides. Some feel that the process is <br />unfair. Others feel that the engineers and plarmers <br />who make access management decisions are not <br />sensitive to the needs of the business commlmity. This <br />brochure is intended to provide you with a better <br />understanding of access management to dispel these <br />concerns. <br />