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Dr. Essam Almasri Advanced Traffic Engineering 3. Roundabout

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3. Roundabout. Background. Roundabouts are circular intersections with Yield control on all entering vehicles Channelized approaches Appropriate geometric curvature to ensure travel speeds in the roundabout of 30 mph (50km/hr) or less. Background. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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3. Roundabout

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Roundabouts are circular intersections with1. Yield control on all entering vehicles

2. Channelized approaches

3. Appropriate geometric curvature to ensure travel

speeds in the roundabout of 30 mph (50km/hr) or

less

Background

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Old type was called conventional roundabout

There are 3 types of roundabout:

Normal roundabout

It has a one – way circulating carriageway around a kerbed central island. The entries may or may not have flared approaches. (Preferred to be flared)

In Britain the central island is normally 4m or more in diameter and the entries are flared.

Mini roundabout

It has a one – way circulating carriageway around a flush or slightly raised circular marking less than 4m in diameter. The entries may or may not have flared approaches.

Double roundabout

It has two normal or mini roundabouts either contiguous (having a common border) or connected by a central link road or kerbed island.

Background

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Normal Roundabout

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Normal Roundabout

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Normal Roundabout

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Mini Roundabout

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Double Mini Roundabout

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Double Mini Roundabout

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Double Normal Roundabout

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Double Normal Roundabout

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Grade Separated Roundabout

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Grade Separated Roundabout

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Mini roundabouts can be particularly effective in :

-Improving existing urban junctions that experience capacity and safety problems.

-It is only used when speed limit is < or = 48 km/h.

Double roundabouts have a number of special applications:

.at an awkward (uncomfortable) site such as a scissors junction

.at an existing staggered junction

.at overloaded single roundabouts.

.at junctions with more than four entries.

Background

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Other types of roundabout:

-Signalised roundabout that has traffic signals installed on one or more of the approach arms.

-Grade separated roundabouts which has at least one entry road via an interconnecting slip road from a road at a different level, e.g. underpasses, flyovers.

Background

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Why Roundabouts are Safer

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Data Requirements for Capacity calculation

1. Movement traffic flow (Left, Right, Through, U-Turn)2. Circulating flow3. Passenger Car Equivalent (PCE) 4. Geometric data

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Data Requirements (Circulating flow)

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Data Requirements (Circulating flow)

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Capacity

Roundabout approach capacity is dependent on 1. the conflicting circulating flow and 2. the roundabout’s geometric elements.

Roundabouts should be designed to operate at no more than 85 percent of their estimated capacity. Beyond this threshold, delays and queues vary significantly from their mean values.

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British Method forCapacity Calculation

The capacity is linearly dependent upon circulating flow crossing the entry.

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Where: Qe = Entry capacity (pcu/h); Qc = Circulating flow across the entry (pcu/h);

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British Method forCapacity Calculation

Geometric Factors affecting the capacity of a roundabout:

1. Inscribed circle diameter D (m)2. width of flare of each entry. E (m), 3. Approach width v (m)4. effective length over which flare is

developed l1 (m)5. entry angle ()6. entry radius (r) (m).

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British Method forCapacity Calculation

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British Method forCapacity Calculation

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British Method forCapacity Calculation

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The Ration of Flow to CapacityThe (RFC) is an indicator of the likely

performance of a junction under a future year traffic loading.

Due to site-to-site variations, there is a standard error of prediction of the entry

capacity by the formulae of 15% for any site.

Thus RFC = Flow / Capacity should be < 85%

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Example :Find the capacity of arm A if : Flow ( Qc ) =230 veh/h Slope( fc ) = 0.8 Intercept (F) = 2371 K=0.99

( Answer: Qe=2165pcu/h )

cce QfFQ 4.111.1 For grade – separated roundabouts

If the demand flow is 1900 pcu/h. Find the RFC and comment on the results. ( Answer: RFC=0.88 88% > 85 , Not good )