Turbo-Roundabout

Related Media

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Video Aligned

Are Streets Too Complicated Now?

City Beautiful

Asks whether today's proliferation of lines, signals, and lane types on streets is overcomplication or a needed response to modern demands, a question that runs directly through CS's Element-scale catalog and the density-tiered Corridor retrofit paths this video is tagged to.

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America Built the Wrong Roundabout (The Dutch Didn't)

Safe By Design

Traces the turbo roundabout's origin and safety data, but also reports the Fietsersbond's documented cyclist/pedestrian crossing hazards at turbo roundabouts directly, worth noting since it complicates a clean "aligned" label.

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Typical at: Compact Urban

Suburban and Core are edge cases. Undeveloped and Rural are unlikely pairings.

#Design notes

Reserved for higher-volume Arterial-to-Arterial junctions, where a standard roundabout's capacity is not enough but a signal is still not the preferred default. This keeps the roundabout-first philosophy intact at higher volumes rather than defaulting to a signal once traffic grows.¹

#Related patterns

Roundabout (Single/Multi-Lane) (INT-RAB-01) (the base pattern this scales up from), Signal (INT-SIG-03) (explicitly named on this page as the alternative not preferred even at these volumes)

#Getting there: Retrofit path options

Signal-to-roundabout conversion (RFT-INT-01)

#References

1. Evidence-based Fortuijn, L.G.H., "Turbo Roundabouts: Design Principles and Safety Performance," Transportation Research Record 2096 (2009).(opens in new tab)

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