Publication detail

Traffic safety of multi-lanes roundabouts

RADIMSKÝ, M. SMĚLÝ, M. APELTAUER, T.

Original Title

Traffic safety of multi-lanes roundabouts

English Title

Traffic safety of multi-lanes roundabouts

Type

conference paper

Language

Czech

Original Abstract

A single-lane roundabout is the safest type of level crossing, but it is necessary to increase their capacity due to the expansion of traffic. The right way is to use additional entry and circulating lanes. Unfortunately using classic mutli-lanes roundabouts lead only to a slight increase of intensity, while car accidents growth. A possible solution seems to be turbo roundabouts, where spiral arrangement of the lanes on the circuit, lead to reduce the number of conflict points while preserving higher capacity as we found during our measurements in the Netherlands and the Czech republic.

English abstract

A single-lane roundabout is the safest type of level crossing, but it is necessary to increase their capacity due to the expansion of traffic. The right way is to use additional entry and circulating lanes. Unfortunately using classic mutli-lanes roundabouts lead only to a slight increase of intensity, while car accidents growth. A possible solution seems to be turbo roundabouts, where spiral arrangement of the lanes on the circuit, lead to reduce the number of conflict points while preserving higher capacity as we found during our measurements in the Netherlands and the Czech republic.

Keywords

turbo roundabouts; single-lane; spiral arrangement

Key words in English

turbo roundabouts; single-lane; spiral arrangement

Authors

RADIMSKÝ, M.; SMĚLÝ, M.; APELTAUER, T.

RIV year

2011

Released

22. 9. 2011

Publisher

Slovak Transport Society at the Slovak Academy of Sciences

Location

Bratislava

ISBN

978-80-970772-0-4

Book

MOSATT 2011 - Modern Safety Technologies in Transportation

Edition

1

Edition number

1

Pages from

338

Pages to

342

Pages count

4

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT73886,
  author="Michal {Radimský} and Martin {Smělý} and Tomáš {Apeltauer}",
  title="Traffic safety of multi-lanes roundabouts",
  booktitle="MOSATT 2011 - Modern Safety Technologies in Transportation",
  year="2011",
  series="1",
  number="1",
  pages="338--342",
  publisher="Slovak Transport Society at the Slovak Academy of Sciences",
  address="Bratislava",
  isbn="978-80-970772-0-4"
}