Warrants for roundabouts and other traffic control devices

dc.contributor.authorSampson, J.D. (John)
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-11T10:48:51Z
dc.date.available2021-06-11T10:48:51Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractThere are many warrants for traffic signals, but no definitive warrant for roundabouts. Some references (e.g. TRB 2000) give guidelines, and refer to the capacities of roundabouts and TWSC (two-way stop control), but capacities address the upper limit of the control device, not the lower values which would justify, or warrant, a change in control. Other references refer to the need for a roundabout warrant but do not develop one. One paper by Sampson and Meijer (1999) discussed potential warrants, but no recommendation was made. In this paper the role of roundabouts and mini-circles in filling the large gap between where stop control is no longer ideal, and where traffic signals are required, is examined. It is found that there are many considerations in addition to volume or delay that need to be taken into account when deciding on whether to implement roundabout type control, but as a rule of thumb, if the average queue at a stop control exceeds two (2Q) during the peak hour, roundabouts will improve the traffic flow, and if the queue totals around ten or more (10Q), then the roundabout is likely to have reached its capacity.en_ZA
dc.description.departmentCivil Engineeringen_ZA
dc.description.librarianam2021en_ZA
dc.description.urihttp://www.journals.co.za/ej/ejour_civileng.htmlen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationSampson J. Warrants for roundabouts and other traffic control devices. Journal of the South African Institution of Civil Engineering 2020:62(2), Art. #0701, 8 pages. http://dx.DOI.org/ 10.17159/2309-8775/2020/v62n2a4.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn10.17159/2309-8775/2020/v62n2a4
dc.identifier.issn1021-2019 (online)
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/80284
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherSouth African Institution of Civil Engineeringen_ZA
dc.rightsSouth African Institution of Civil Engineeringen_ZA
dc.subjectTraffic signalsen_ZA
dc.subjectRoundaboutsen_ZA
dc.subjectWarrantsen_ZA
dc.subjectQueueen_ZA
dc.subjectDelayen_ZA
dc.subjectStop streeten_ZA
dc.subjectAll-way (4-way) stopen_ZA
dc.subjectMini-circleen_ZA
dc.titleWarrants for roundabouts and other traffic control devicesen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA

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