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    Roundabout Palooza - Roundabout Design and Education, and Alaska to Connecticut Roundabout Projects

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    This webinar is led by ITE Roundabout Committee.

    Webinar Description:
    In celebration of National Roundabouts Week, this webinar provided a unique opportunity for participants to learn about the national design guidance and education of drivers for roundabouts and design lessons learned for roundabout projects from Alaska, Georgia and Connecticut.

    The webinar began with a summary of the design guidance driver education research conducted by the presenters. The project presentations deatialed unique aspects of roundabout studies and design from Alaska with an interchange roundabout study and design. In Georgia, a roundabout with a railroad crossing through it will be presented. The final presentation will detail lessons learned on a cost-efficient roundabout design and construction for an urban compact roundabout in CT. Each of the speakers are experienced in design and construction of roundabouts.

    Learning Objectives:

    • Recall the status of the Roundabout Committee and projects being undertaken as well as design projects from rural Alaska, to Georgia roundabout with a railroad crossing, to urban center roundabout in CT.
    • Recognize current design guidance across the country as well as the education of new drivers.
    • Describe the design aspects of an expressway interchange with roundabouts in Alaska and the issues with evaluating and designing for Alaska conditions.
    • Explain the critical design considerations with roundabouts and railroad crossing for the Georgia project.
    • Calculate a cost effective roundabout design and construction for an urban downtown roundabout in CT. Lessons learned from efficient design and construction methods will be detailed, such as minimizing grading and drainage improvements and reuse of existing materials.
    Policies: This webinar recording is made available on-demand it will have a shelf life of 60 days to register before it is archived. Participants are able to purchase and retrieve their certificate until their access to the content expires. After the content expires and goes into archive, the certificate opportunity is forfeit.

    To learn how to register for this on-demand webinar and other important webinar information, please view the webinar course
    page here.

    Description

    This webinar is led by ITE Roundabout Committee.

    Webinar Description:
    In celebration of National Roundabouts Week, this webinar provides a unique opportunity for participants to learn about the national design guidance and education of drivers for roundabouts and design lessons learned for roundabout projects from Alaska, Georgia and Connecticut.

    The webinar will begin with a summary of the design guidance driver education research conducted by the presenters. The project presentations will detail unique aspects of roundabout studies and design from Alaska with an interchange roundabout study and design. In Georgia, a roundabout with a railroad crossing through it will be presented. The final presentation will detail lessons learned on a cost-efficient roundabout design and construction for an urban compact roundabout in CT. Each of the speakers are experienced in design and construction of roundabouts.

    Learning Objectives:

    • Recall the status of the Roundabout Committee and projects being undertaken as well as design projects from rural Alaska, to Georgia roundabout with a railroad crossing, to urban center roundabout in CT.
    • Recognize current design guidance across the country as well as the education of new drivers.
    • Describe the design aspects of an expressway interchange with roundabouts in Alaska and the issues with evaluating and designing for Alaska conditions.
    • Explain the critical design considerations with roundabouts and railroad crossing for the Georgia project.
    • Calculate a cost effective roundabout design and construction for an urban downtown roundabout in CT. Lessons learned from efficient design and construction methods will be detailed, such as minimizing grading and drainage improvements and reuse of existing materials.

    Policies: Registration for this webinar closes 30 minutes prior to start. The webinar recording will be made available on-demand it will have a shelf life of 60 days to register before it is archived. Participants are able to purchase and retrieve their PDH credit certificate until their access to the content expires. After the content expires and goes into archive, the PDH credit certificate opportunity is forfeited.

    To learn how to purchase your PDH Certificates and see more information about the webinar including fees, please view the webinar course page here.

    Contributors

    • Moderator: Ken Sides, P.E., CNU-a, LCI, Senior Transportation Engineer | Sam Schwartz Engineering | Tampa, Florida, USA

      Ken Sides has been instrumental in some three dozen constructed modern roundabouts, mostly as Owner’s Project Manager. He has authored eight articles on the topic of modern roundabouts. He is a long-standing member of the Transportation Research Board Roundabout Standing Committee and Chair of the ITE Standing Roundabout Committee. He is an accredited member of the Congress of New Urbanism, is certified by the American Bicycle League to teach bicycle safety and is certified by the Florida Bicycle Association as a qualified Ride Leader / Ride Master. As a roundabouts course instructor for the National Highway Institute, he teaches engineers why and how to avoid overbuilding modern roundabouts.

    • Jordan Pike, P.E., PTOE, Senior Civil Engineer | HEB Engineers, Inc. | North Conway, New Hampshire, United States

      Jordan has been involved with the roundabout committee over the last year with supporting the design guidance project. He has 15 years of roundabout experience, mostly with Connecticut DOT, where he was involved with the design of over a dozen roundabouts. He continues to pursue modern roundabouts in New Hampshire and Maine.

    • Jonathan French, P.E., Engineering Data Manager | Maine DOT | Augusta, Maine, United States

      Jonathan has 20 years of experience with MaineDOT and has been involved with several roundabout projects and recently an award winning project. He has been supporting the roundabout committee with webinar presentation on roundabout education and enforcement, and the Committee project involves the various state laws for roundabout operations as well as the driver education practices and roundabout-specific curriculum for each state (if any).

    • Mark T. Johnson, P.E., Principal Engineer | MTJ Roundabout Engineering | Madison, Wisconsin, United States

      Mark Johnson, an early roundabout adopter, founded MTJ Roundabout Engineering in 2005 after 12 years of public- and private-sector work.
      Early on, Mark realized the importance of design optimization and received extensive training and mentorship from Barry Crown (a UK-based roundabout expert). Mr. Crown’s mentorship imparted the significance of the interrelationship between geometric design, safety and operational performance. Mr. Crown had this to say about Mark: “Asking the right questions is an invaluable skill that sets Mark apart from others, and he thinks 'big picture' before drilling down to the details.”
      Mark works on project teams throughout North America to ensure well-received, successful projects.

    • Todd Price, P.E., District Preconstruction Engineer | Georgia DOT | Atlanta, Georgia, United States

      Todd is a 22 year professional engineer with Georgia DOT and involved with dozens of transportation projects including an ITE award winning roundabout project.

    • Joe Balskus, Director of Transportation Systems | VHB, Inc. | Wethersfield, Connecticut, United States -- Vice Chair, Roundabout Committee

      Joe serves as vice chair of roundabout committee and has studied, or designed or constructed over a dozen roundabouts in CT including three opened in 2021. He has 33 years of progressive transportation experience in southern New England. He has presented at ITE and TRB conferences and was part of the inaugural ITE Roundabout committee formation in 2008.

    September 22, 2022
    Thu 2:00 PM EDT

    Duration 1H 30M

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