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  • New Type of Roundabout: Rou...
    Tollazzi, Tomaž; Renčelj, Marko; Turnšek, Sašo

    Promet, 09/2011, Volume: 23, Issue: 5
    Journal Article, Web Resource

    Recently, many of the foreign traffic-safety analyses point out the low level of traffic safety in multi-lane roundabouts. This problem is resolved in several ways in different countries; however, the solution, whereby the number of conflict points is diminished (e.g. turbo roundabout) has proven to be the most successful. However, the turbo roundabout also has its deficiencies: it has conflict crossing points and larger reconstruction of the existing two-lane roundabout is needed when the turbo roundabout is to be implemented instead of the existing one. In the paper a new type of roundabout has been introduced; the roundabout with “depressed” lanes for right turning (“the flower-roundabout”). Financially speaking, the main advantage of the new type of roundabout is that it can be implemented within the dimensions of the already existing “normal” two-lane roundabout. From the traffic-safety point of view, the main advantage of the new type of roundabout is that it has no crossing conflict points. KEYWORDS: traffic safety, roundabout, turbo roundabout, roundabout with “depressed” lanes for right turn