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Roundabout Task Force
Transportation Safety Council
Executive Committee
Chair: Hillary Isebrands, Eagle, Colorado, hillary.isebrands@gmail.com
Vice Chair: Open
Project Expediter: Joseph Glowitz
Communication Co-Chairs: Joakim Osthus and Philip Rust
Staff Liaison: Edward Stollof, Senior Director, Safety Programs, ITE, 202-289-0222 x 132, estollof@ite.org
Elevating and Spreading our Collective Roundabout Knowledge
The ITE Roundabout Task Force (Task Force) has a diverse membership of over 60 people representing 26 states and 4 countries. This page is being updated on a continuing basis.
The goal of this Task Force is to provide products and services that advance the knowledge of roundabouts within the engineering profession and promote broader acceptance of roundabouts by the public. The Task Force will take a holistic view of roundabouts and will work to disseminate roundabout information and products to better serve the ITE membership at all levels. The Task Force will also strive to disseminate roundabout information in a timely manner.
Helping Public Officials Promote the Benefits of Roundabouts
The Task Force will serve as a forum for transportation practitioners to discuss design practices, considerations, and standards affecting the design of roundabouts and become a resource for and actively work with policy makers in the transportation industry to develop a better understanding of the benefits roundabouts can provide to the transportation network.
Bridging the Roundabout Education Gap
During the first Task Force meeting, EDUCATION stood out overwhelmingly as the greatest need our profession faces when it comes to roundabouts. Although EDUCATION was the overarching greatest need, the notion of who needs to be educated was widespread. Education is needed at all levels, for some agencies it is engineers, planners, policy makers, decision makers, and for others, it is council members, the general public, project and community stakeholders, maintenance and construction staff, and for some, it is everyone.
Initial Momentum
One of the first efforts of the task force was to our members to contribute the technical articles are included in this issue of the ITE Journal. We are extremely gratified that so many individuals have contributed to both the standard long-form articles and the news-related articles. This is a testament to the commitment of the individuals on the task force concerning everyday job-related technical engineering and policy-related issues concerning roundabout topics.
What’s next?
The Task Force is working on a Roundabout Outreach Toolbox that will be a series of one to four page briefings on a wide range of roundabout topics (i.e. design philosophy, dispelling myths, maintenance issues, capacity, pedestrians/bike, visually impaired, access management, etc.) The Task force also sponsored roundabout sessions at the ITE Technical Meeting in Phoenix, AZ in March 2009 and will be sponsoring sessions at the ITE Annual Meeting in San Antonio, TX in August 2009. We are working on a number of other initiatives and consider our efforts to date an excellent start since we have only been in existence for less than one year.
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Task Force Minutes
Task Force Agendas
Task Force Presentations
Roundabout Professional Development
Compendium of Presentations
March, 2009 – ITE Technical Conference
Roundabout Content in ITE Journal Articles
Roundabout Research Resources
State and Local Agency Roundabout Resources
Federal Agency Roundabout Resources
ITE Bookstore: Featured Product
ITE Task Force Projects
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Task Force Minutes
Task Force Agendas
Task Force Presentations
Roundabout Professional Development
Compendium of Presentations
Roundabout Content in ITE Journal Articles
February 2009
- Right of Way Standards for Roundabouts
- Roundabouts and Signals: Harmony Even with Increasing Traffic Volumes
- Trucks in Roundabouts: Pitfalls in Design and Operations
- Mini-Roundabouts for the United States
- Safety News
- Roundabout Lane Control Signing
By Phil Weber, P.Eng., Senior Project Manager, Ourston Roundabouts Canada and Eric Frailing, E.I.T., Design Engineer, Ourston Roundabout Engineering Inc.
- North America’s largest Roundabout Project: 44 Intersections
By Randy Asman, P.E., Traffic Engineer, Wisconsin Department of Transportation and Kevin Kuhlow, Senior Highway Engineer, Ourston Roundabout Engineering Inc.
- Roundabout Adjacent to MD32
By Derek Joost, Senior Traffic Engineer, The Traffic Group Inc.
March 2009
- Safety News
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Commission for Global Road safety calls for Moscow Ministerial Conference
Recommendations: New Roads must be Safe Roads
- Some Roundabout Mileposts
By Ken Sides, P.E., PTOE, AICP, Senior Professional Engineer, City of Clearwater,FL, USA
April 2009
- Safety News
- The New ITE Roundabout Task Force
By Hillary N. Isebrands, P.E., ITE Roundabout Task Force Chair, Edward R.
Stollof, ITE Roundabout Task Force Staff Liaison and Brian Gilleran, P.E., ITE
Roundabout Task Force Friend
- Following a Good Design Through Construction
By Leah Ness, P.E., Traffic Engineer, Ayres Associates
- NCHRP 3-65A, Update of FHWA’s Roundabouts: An Informational Guide
By Lee A. Rodegerdts, P.E., Associate Engineer, Kittelson & Associates Inc., Portland,
OR, USA and Justin A. Bansen, P.E., Senior Engineer, Kittelson & Associates Inc.,
Orlando, FL, USA
Roundabout Research Web sites
State and Local Agency Roundabout Resources
Federal Agency Roundabout Resources
ITE Bookstore: Featured Product
ITE Task Force Projects
Hot Topics/Blogs/
List Serve “Sifts” (Coming Soon)
Education
- Roundabout Public Education
- Quality Images and Videos Needed
Design
- Designing Curb Ramps for Roundabouts
- Roundabout accessibility for the visually-impaired
- Raised Crosswalks at roundabouts
- Mini-roundabout definitions
- Bike lanes and Bike ramps
- Bicycle Roundabouts
Policies and Standards
- Roundabout First Policies
- Location
- Roundabouts near Elementary Schools
- Multi-lane roundabouts near High Schools
- Roundabouts at Hospitals
- Roundabouts adjacent to college campuses
Operations
- Level of service impacts
- Turn signals and roundabouts
- Pavement Markings: Optional Words and Symbols on Roundabout Approaches: Use of yield line (shark teeth) as well as the dashed line to indicate the outside edge of the circulating roadway
- Signalized Roundabouts
- Access Management near roundabouts
- Private drives, business entrances, in or adjacent to roundabouts
- Landscaping
- Roundabout graffiti
- Lighting standards at roundabouts
Safety
- Roundabout Crash Reporting
- Pedestrian fatalities
Construction
- Trends in Roundabout Construction over Time
Successes , Best Practices and Examples
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