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2011 Conference - What did you learn

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1. What are the two most important things you learned at this conference?

identified themselves as consultants or designers

  1. Information on effectiveness of various approach signage.
  2. How other communities are making changes to accommodate bicycles and pedestrians.
  3.  Stop shopping for[unreadable word] from all over the USA and around the world, especially from countries that have decades ahead of America and roundabout experience.
  4.  One is consideration for pedestrian blind pedestrians.
  5.  The state of the discussion on crowning versus constant cross slope of the circulatory roadway with trucks.
  6.  ADA workshop – blind pedestrian perspective.
  7.  Creating a livable roadway four door
  8.  Information about the visually impaired.
  9.  Resources to draw from.
  10.  How to minimize entry lanes overlap.
  11.  Learned more information on the basis of differences between capacity models.
  12.  The level of interest in both the general public and approving authorities in some areas/locations  -some are embracing and some are resisting.
  13.  That we don't know everything about roundabouts and it doesn't work everywhere.
  14.  Entry and exits are treated differently.
  15.  Roundabouts do work. I was skeptical at first, but I now realize there is a lot of flexibility in design.
  16.  Updates to best practices i.e. design and education.
  17.  Information and perception on mini roundabouts.
  18.  Truck treatments.
  19.  Likely causes of truck rollovers.
  20.  Never draw a concept without doing a traffic operational analysis. The operational analysis will tell you how many approach lanes you will need.
  21. Only 5% of blind people use a seeing eye dog.
  22. Mini roundabout design.
  23.  Truck volumes can have a major impact on roundabout operation and must be analyzed carefully.
  24.  Learned i.e. need to do a better job of promoting roundabouts as a means of avoiding or delaying road widening.
  25.  Implementation and ideas concerning mini roundabouts.
  26.  For multilane roundabouts insurer Lane continuity for safe operation.
  27.  Alternate design methods for various cases.

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  1. Better design (path overlap – Howard's presentation was good).
  2. How important and beneficial are these roundabouts.
  3.  Necessity for education and the way to educate
  4.  An effectiveness evaluation after the introduction.
  5.  Geometric design of roundabouts.
  6. A roundabout is more efficient than traffic signals in some areas
  7. Different types of roundabouts for different locations and situations, i.e., bicycle or multiuse paths, pedestrian access
  8.  More updated statistics.
  9. There is a lot to do
  10.  Having local by and is very important for a successful roundabout project.
  11. More information about signing/driving 2 Lane roundabouts.

Academia/Grad students

  1.  The importance of international comparison and experience exchange your
  2.   There seems to be a very positive attitude towards taking [not sure of previous word ]accessibility challenges – much less animosity than in past years. 
  3.   First of all we had more information in real examples from local authorities – DOT and County examples. 
  4.  Treatment of pedestrian crossings by using hawks or other devices.
  5.  Model differences in capacity estimation.
  6.  We still don't understand the driving behavior on roundabouts and we still don't focus much on discovering it.
  7.  I was impressed how different our design standards in the USA, how different are solution s and implementation.
  8.  I enjoyed roundabout tour. There are many types of roundabout and these are effectively utilized by the driver.
  9.  Network with roundabout experts especially practicing engineers.
  10.  The nodes not the roads. Buy land at the intersections and along the road.
  11. Various samples from all over the world on roundabouts and the observations of these.
  12.  Countermeasures for safety for blind people and low vision people

 

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