How is the Strategic Highway Corridors concept different from past initiatives? How will corridor studies be different from past studies?
The Strategic Highway Corridors concept builds upon past initiatives to improve mobility and connectivity throughout North Carolina. The concept is expected to improve decision-making and create a greater sense of continuity and safety for traffic flow along corridors. The development and designation of facility types per corridor is a significant step forward from past studies. Each facility type represents an ultimate goal/standard for how the highway facility may operate in the future. Facility types also characterize operational features such as the use and breaks in medians, driveways, traffic signals, intersection, and/or interchanges along the corridor. The use of this concept will also promote access management techniques as a tool for accomplishing the goals of the concept. Strategic Highway Corridor studies are expected to examine longer corridor distances than in the past. A methodology for how these studies will be conducted is being refined and may differ slightly for each
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