Roundabouts: Planning, Design and Potential Pitfalls

Although roundabouts have proven safety and operational benefits, proper planning and engineering design is essential for roundabouts to function correctly. This brief, yet practical, OnDemand Webinar is your opportunity to better understand modern roundabouts and their installation, learn specific design skills and current practices, and apply roundabout design principles to projects in your region. This OnDemand Webinar will emphasize both basic and advanced roundabout principles to assist you with proper roundabout implementation for better public acceptance, smoother roundabout operations, increased capacity and safety, less maintenance and less pollution.

Whether you are new to roundabouts or an experienced design engineer, you will learn to understand the principles of safety behind the modern roundabout as well as specific design practices with simple and complex issues. You will learn about many roundabout design concepts and thought-provoking topics from unique intersection types to give you the opportunity to address different roundabout types and specific details in roundabout design based on geometric design principles.

Learning Objectives
•You will be able to discuss modern roundabouts and their installation.
•You will be able to describe design skills and current practices.
•You will be able to review design concepts and the key to implementing safe roundabouts.
•You will be able to summarize why roundabouts are safer.

Authors

Agenda

What Is a Modern Roundabout?

Why Are Roundabouts Safer?

Thinking Through a Roundabout Design

Roundabout Design Guides in Practice

The Key to Implementing Safe Roundabouts

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