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Lecture 05 Roundabouts

This document summarizes a lecture on roundabouts from a traffic engineering course. It discusses roundabout geometric characteristics like inscribed circle diameter and entry/exit widths. It also covers topics like calculating entry/exit/circulating volumes based on turning movements, converting vehicle types to passenger car equivalents, and methods for determining roundabout capacity and delay like the HCM and Kimber methods. Examples are provided to demonstrate how to perform volume calculations and capacity/delay analyses for single and multi-lane roundabouts.

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Lecture 05 Roundabouts

This document summarizes a lecture on roundabouts from a traffic engineering course. It discusses roundabout geometric characteristics like inscribed circle diameter and entry/exit widths. It also covers topics like calculating entry/exit/circulating volumes based on turning movements, converting vehicle types to passenger car equivalents, and methods for determining roundabout capacity and delay like the HCM and Kimber methods. Examples are provided to demonstrate how to perform volume calculations and capacity/delay analyses for single and multi-lane roundabouts.

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TRAFFIC ENGINEERING COURSE

(PWE 8322)

ROUNDABOUTS

Lecture # 05

Instructor: Usama Elrawy Shahdah, PhD

Conflict Points
2

Conflict points
3

Geometric Characteristics
Inscribed
circle
diameter
Exit width

Entry width
Splitter island width
Circulatory roadway width

Geometric Characteristics
5

Number of Lanes
8

vc
va

Roundabout Volumes
Turning
movements

Roundabout
volumes

Steps

Step 1: Convert trucks and other vehicle types to


passenger car equivalents (pce)
Step 2: PHF volume adjustment
Step 3: Entry volume
Step 4: Exit volume
Step 5: Circulating volume
Vehicle Type

Passenger Car
Equivalent (pce)
1.0

Single-unit truck or bus

1.5

Truck with trailer

2.0

Bicycle or motorcycle

0.5

Car

Entry Volume

Entry volume = sum of entering turning movements

Exit Volume

Exit volume = sum of turning movements as shown

Circulating Volume

Circulating volume = sum of turning movements as


shown

Example: Volume Conversion


Turning
movements
PHF = 0.94

110
350
140

Roundabout
volumes
East/west:
2% SU trucks/ buses

50
240
100

North/south:
4% SU trucks/buses, 2%
combo trucks

Example Step 1: PCE Calculation

SB TH: 530 veh (4% SU/bus, 2% combo)

% cars (0.94) 1.0 pce/veh

0.94

% SU/bus (0.04) 1.5 pce/veh

0.06

% combo (0.02) 2.0 pce/veh

0.04

1.04

fhv
Vehicle Type

Passenger Car
Equivalent (pce)
1.0

Single-unit truck or bus

1.5

Truck with trailer

2.0

Bicycle or motorcycle

0.5

Car

530 veh

551 pce

Example Step 1: Completed PCE


Calculation
Raw Counts

110
350
140

PCEs

50
240
100

111
354
141

51
242
101

Example Step 2: PHF Factor


PCEs (hourly)

111
354
141

51
242
101

141 / 0.94 = 150

PCEs (peak 15
minutes)

118
377
150

54
258
107

Example Step 3: Calculate Entry


Volume

797

Entry volume = sum of entering turning movements

?
419

645
?

642

118
377
150

54
258
107

Example Step 4: Calculate Exit Volume

797

Exit volume = sum of turning movements as shown

?
419

645
?

642

118
377
150

54
258
107

Example Step 5: Calculate Circulating


Volume

797

Circulating volume = sum of turning movements as


shown

453
419

645
628

642

118
377
150

54
258
107

826

Example: Solution

PHF = 0.94

Roundabout
volumes
East/west:
2% SU trucks/ buses

797

Turning
movements

419

645
628

North/south:
4% SU trucks/buses, 2%
combo trucks

642

110
350
140

50
240
100

826

453

22

Capacity Determination

HCM 2000 Method


e ( vctc / 3600)
ca vc
( vc t f / 3600 )
1 e

vc
va

Upper-bound
s o lu t io n
Lower-bound
s o lu t io n

Critical gap
(sec)

Follow-up
Time (sec)

4 .1

2 .6

4 .6

3 .1

HCM method
24

CONTROL DELAY & LOS


25

Kimber Method
26

Qe (capacity of entry flow) is linearly dependent


upon circulating flow crossing the entry (Qc).

Kimber Method
27

Factors affecting the capacity of a roundabout:


Inscribed circle diameter D (m)
width of flare of each entry. e (m),
Approach width v (m)
effective length over which flare is developed l' (m)
entry angle ()
entry radius (r) (m)

Kimber Method
28

Kimber Method
29

Range of geometric variables in data set used by


Kimber to develop capacity expression

Kimber Method (simplified method)


30

Single-lane roundabouts

This constraint implies that the capacity of the


circulating roadway of the roundabout is 1800 pcph.

Kimber Method (simplified method)


31

Two lane roundabouts

Example
32

A single-lane roundabout having the following


geometric characteristics:
e

=4m
v=4m
l = 40 m
r = 20 m
= 30 degrees
D = 40 m
circulating

volume = 285 pcph


the entry leg demand = 315 pcph.

Compute the average delay


Use

an analysis period of 15 minutes.

Solution
33

Use Simplified Kimber method

Delay

Trafficware Synchro
34

Demonstrated in Class

Home Reading
35

Synchro Studio 9 User Guide


NCHRPREPORT 672 Design Roundabouts: An
Informational Guide, Second Edition

36

Thanks for your time

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