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1 The purpose of this Guide is to provide transportation agencies with guidance in dealing with practical issues of selecting and managing access along truck routes, while improving traffic operations and safety. In this Guide, the term truck route applies both to routes that are formally designated by a transportation agency to serve trucks and to any other routes that carry a substantial volume of trucks.
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2 Design and Access Management Guidelines for Truck Routes: Planning and Design Guide generally include physical conditions, such as overhead structures, structural capacity of bridges, cross section widths, overhead traffic signals, and roundabouts. With the exception of some industrial and port locations, where the traffic stream may consist almost exclusively of trucks, very few roadway segments and intersections are designed solely to serve trucks.
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