AASHTO GAUHF-1

The Guide for Accommodating Utilities within Highways and Freeways, 1st Edition, merges and updates the information in two former publications on utility accommodation:A Policy on the Accommodation of Utilities Within Freeway Right-of-Way, 5th Edition (published in 2005); and A Guide for Accommodating Utilities Within Highway Right-of-Way,4th Edition (published in 2005).

The guide includes updates to materials that have changed or developed, as well as information on emerging technologies for installing and accommodating utilities in the right-of-way. With all redundancies and inconsistencies between the two previous publications removed and the information updated, this new guide contains five chapters: Introduction; General Accommodation Factors; Utility Accommodation on Fully Controlled-Access Highways; Utility Accommodation on Highway Right-of-Way (NonControlled Access); and Utility Accommodation on Multi-Access Right-of-Way (Partially Controlled Access).

Within the guide’s five chapters, nine new sections were added:

• Section 1.4.1. – Functional Classification of Roads
• Section 2.2.1. – Utility Permits
• Section 2.2.2. – Utility Agreement
• Section 2.2.3. – Utility Joint Use Agreement
• Section 2.3.3. – 3D Design
• Section 2.7. – As-Built Documentation
• Section 2.9.10. – Utility Construction Included in Highway Contract
• Section 2.11. – Abandoned and Out of Service Facilities
• Section 2.12. – Alternative Uses of Right-of-Way