Alternative Types of Roundabouts An Informational Guide

This book presents a history of roundabouts, an introduction to their design, calculations of their capacity and traffic-safety features. It describes the key features of standard roundabouts and their limitations. Alternative types of roundabouts are a f

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Tomaž Tollazzi

Alternative Types of Roundabouts An Informational Guide

Springer Tracts on Transportation and Traffic Volume 6

Series editor Roger P. Roess, New York, USA

About this Series The book series “Springer Tracts on Transportation and Traffic” (STTT) publishes current and historical insights and new developments in the fields of Transportation and Traffic research. The intent is to cover all the technical contents, applications, and multidisciplinary aspects of Transportation and Traffic, as well as the methodologies behind them. The objective of the book series is to publish monographs, handbooks, selected contributions from specialized conferences and workshops, and textbooks, rapidly and informally but with a high quality. The STTT book series is intended to cover both the state-of-the-art and recent developments, hence leading to deeper insight and understanding in Transportation and Traffic Engineering. The series provides valuable references for researchers, engineering practitioners, graduate students and communicates new findings to a large interdisciplinary audience. More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/11059

Tomaž Tollazzi

Alternative Types of Roundabouts An Informational Guide

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Tomaž Tollazzi Department of Traffic Management Faculty of Civil Engineering University of Maribor Maribor Slovenia

ISSN  2194-8119 ISSN  2194-8127  (electronic) ISBN 978-3-319-09083-2 ISBN 978-3-319-09084-9  (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-09084-9 Library of Congress Control Number: 2014953256 Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. Exempted from this legal reservation are brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis or material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the Copyright Law of the Publisher’s location, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Permissions for use may be obtained through RightsLink at the Copyright Clearance Center. Violations are liable to prosecution under the respective Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. While the advice and inf