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, 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.

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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.