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39 Application of the Expanded Functional Classification System This section provides practitioners with an overview of the design concepts associated with the Expanded FCS. It describes the concepts for identifying design element considerations and tradeoffs for balancing modal needs in order to deliver a contextually appropriate multimodal design for the context and roadway-type combinations in each Expanded FCS matrix cell.
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40 An Expanded Functional Classification System for Highways and Streets context, for example, how community needs and goals, land use plans, and other items could have an impact on the design. Once all these individual components are selected, the cross section may be assembled and how each component can best fit within the available right-of-way needs to be determined.
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Application of the Expanded Functional Classification System 41 Suburban Minor Arterial Figure 28 shows an Expanded FCS matrix cell that defines the suburban context for a minor arterial. In this case, a roadway provides for medium speed driving, translating into medium mobility and medium levels of access.
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42 An Expanded Functional Classification System for Highways and Streets segment, as discussed previously, to providing users with the appropriate clues about changes in the roadway context and accommodating the users while they move through one context to the next. The operating target speed change from high to low for the rural to rural town transition should be communicated to drivers by more than just speed limit changes.
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Application of the Expanded Functional Classification System 43 should be undertaken to identify whether there are any differences. For example, if sharrows are used in the rural setting and bike lanes are used in the rural town context, transitioning to a bike lane in the transition zone is appropriate.
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44 An Expanded Functional Classification System for Highways and Streets For the suburban to urban transition, a set of similar considerations should be examined. Although the speed remains the same -- medium for both contexts -- there may be lower values used in the design element and speed limits due to higher building density and reduced setbacks.
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