Roundabouts: Planning, Design and Potential Pitfalls

Benefits

Although roundabouts have proven safety and operational benefits, proper planning and engineering design is essential for roundabouts to function correctly. This brief, yet practical, live audio conference 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 audio conference 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.

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

Continuing Education Units

AICP (Pending)
CC
ENG
PMI
Additional credit may be available upon request. Contact Lorman at 866-352-9540 for further information.

Who Should Attend

This live audio conference is designed for engineers, project managers, architects, city officials, developers, presidents, vice presidents, contractors, subcontractors, business owners and managers, planners and public works directors.