Need some good quotes to razzle dazzle the skeptics? Perhaps the ones below will help!
” … the resultant modern roundabout is significantly different from the older style traffic circle both in how it operates and how it is designed.
Federal Highway Administration
Roundabouts: An Informational Guide – FHWA-RD-00-67
“A modern roundabout offers benefits such as increased safety, increased capacity, reduced delay, and calmer traffic.”
PennDOT – Guide to Roundabouts (Publication Number 414)
“Delay measurements at seven roundabout sites showed that the peak-hour delays decreased by about 75% in relation to the previous traffic control.”
Transportation Research Board
National Research Council
“When operating within their capacity, roundabout intersections typically function with lower vehicle delays than other intersection forms and control types.”
Federal Highway Administration
Roundabouts: An Informational Guide – FHWA-RD-00-67
“Because roundabouts keep most traffic moving, they can handle more traffic in the same amount of time compared to stop-controlled intersections.”
Richard Retting – Senior Transportation Engineer
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety
“Improved traffic flows, aesthetics, and cost savings make roundabouts a good idea and the safety gains are compelling. An Institute study shows far fewer crashes occur at intersections with roundabouts than at intersections with signals or stop signs.”
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety
Status Report Vol. 35, No. 5, May 13, 2000
“… in Maryland where roundabouts have been installed there has been a 60% decrease in the total accident rate, 100% decrease in the fatal accident rate, an 82% reduction in the injury accident rate and a 27% reduction in the property damage only accident rate.”
Maryland State Highway Administration
Maryland’s Roundabout Accident Experience and Economic Evaluation
“Modern roundabouts have produced remarkable safety records.”
Federal Highway Administration
Roundabouts: A Direct Way to Safer Highways
“The benefit/cost analysis indicated that for every dollar spent on these projects… there is a return of approximately $8.00 to be realized through accident reduction.”
Maryland State Highway Administration
Maryland’s Roundabout Accident Experience and Economic Evaluation
“Generally both capacity and delay improve with the use of a roundabout when compared to alternate intersection control methods. The capacity at a roundabout will likely be higher than a signalized intersection because there are no losses of time due to yellow and red signal intervals. In addition, vehicles are able to enter the roundabout from each leg simultaneously, which is not possible with other forms of intersection control. Thus, the higher capacity of roundabouts results in shorter delays.”
PennDOT – Guide to Roundabouts (Publication Number 414)
Quotes
Need some good quotes to razzle dazzle the skeptics? Perhaps the ones below will help!
” … the resultant modern roundabout is significantly different from the older style traffic circle both in how it operates and how it is designed.
“A modern roundabout offers benefits such as increased safety, increased capacity, reduced delay, and calmer traffic.”
“Because roundabouts keep most traffic moving, they can handle more traffic in the same amount of time compared to stop-controlled intersections.”
“Improved traffic flows, aesthetics, and cost savings make roundabouts a good idea and the safety gains are compelling. An Institute study shows far fewer crashes occur at intersections with roundabouts than at intersections with signals or stop signs.”
“… in Maryland where roundabouts have been installed there has been a 60% decrease in the total accident rate, 100% decrease in the fatal accident rate, an 82% reduction in the injury accident rate and a 27% reduction in the property damage only accident rate.”
“Modern roundabouts have produced remarkable safety records.”
“The benefit/cost analysis indicated that for every dollar spent on these projects… there is a return of approximately $8.00 to be realized through accident reduction.”
“Generally both capacity and delay improve with the use of a roundabout when compared to alternate intersection control methods. The capacity at a roundabout will likely be higher than a signalized intersection because there are no losses of time due to yellow and red signal intervals. In addition, vehicles are able to enter the roundabout from each leg simultaneously, which is not possible with other forms of intersection control. Thus, the higher capacity of roundabouts results in shorter delays.”
PennDOT – Guide to Roundabouts (Publication Number 414)