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This Standard provides guidelines for the construction, operation, maintenance, and fire protection of limited-access highways, tunnels, bridges, elevated highways, and air right structures.
NFPA 502 has been revised for the 2001 edition to include new thresholds to determine the extent of the application of the standards requirements. It also contains new requirements for means of egress in tunnels, including exit spacing and travel distance