The National Roundabout Conference took place in Vail, Colorado, May 22-25, 2005. It was sponsored by the Transportation Research Board and the Federal Highway Administration. The conference covered the following topics, as described in section headings: use in a range of settings, urban to rural and low speed to high speed; design elements in safety; U.S. methods of estimating safety and operational impacts and redefining design criteria; safety measures; use in an urban constrained environment; alternative analysis comparing all intersection alternatives; roundabout experience and practice; how we did it - evaluation, design and completion; making roundabouts work in a mixed environment; signs, paint, illumination, landscaping; pedestrians; modeling, evaluation, capacity; Department of Transportation policy and procedure development; and public involvement and outreach. For papers presented at this conference see C 41744 - C 41760 and C 44341 - C 44346.
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