At the conclusion of the course, participants should be able to:

1) Provide participants with knowledge of safety and other benefits of the modern roundabout
2) Provide participants with the latest roundabout safety statistics
3) Participants will understand the limitations of available crash data
4) Participants will understand the proper methods for analyzing roundabout safety data
5) Participants will understand the basic principles of good roundabout design
6) Participants will learn some techniques for easy roundabout layout

Eugene R. (Geno) Russell, Professor Emeritus and Past Director, Center for Transportation Research and Training, Department of Civil Engineering, Manhattan, KS, USA

Eugene is currently a Professor Emeritus of Civil Engineering at Kansas State University (KSU) in Manhattan, KS where he is currently conducting research on a part-time basis. He is past director of the KSU Center for Transportation Research & Training. He is chair of the TRB Roundabout Task Force, co-chair of the ITE Roundabout Committee, a member of the NCUTCD Roundabout Task Force and a member of the Transportation Association of Canada (TAC) Roundabout Committee. He has over 49 years of transportation and traffic engineering experience and has taught courses covering almost all aspects of highway planning, design, operations and safety.

He has directed over 80 research projects covering a wide range of highway and traffic engineering and highway safety issues, authored or co-authored over 100 publications and has made over 100 presentations at local, state and international conferences in the USA, Canada, England, Europe, New Zealand and Australia. He is a registered professional engineer, a fellow and life member of ASCE and ITE, and is active in other professional organizations and national committees in the US and Canada.