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Rotary Intersection

This document discusses rotaries and roundabouts. It defines rotaries as intersections that force traffic to circulate clockwise around a central island. Roundabouts eliminate weaving by requiring entering traffic to yield to circulating traffic. The document outlines advantages of each, such as reduced conflicts and uniform traffic flow for rotaries. It also provides design considerations and compares examples of a rotary converted to a roundabout.

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Rotary Intersection

This document discusses rotaries and roundabouts. It defines rotaries as intersections that force traffic to circulate clockwise around a central island. Roundabouts eliminate weaving by requiring entering traffic to yield to circulating traffic. The document outlines advantages of each, such as reduced conflicts and uniform traffic flow for rotaries. It also provides design considerations and compares examples of a rotary converted to a roundabout.

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Rotary

PHOTOGRAPHY SOURCE: Unknown

Geeva George
Asst.Professor,
R.I.T., Kottayam
Introduction
• Rotary intersections are special form of at-grade intersections laid
out for the movement of traffic in one direction around a central
traffic island.

• Essentially all the major conflicts at an intersection namely the


collision between through and right-turn movements are converted
into milder conflicts namely merging and diverging.

• The vehicles entering the rotary are gently forced to move in a


clockwise direction in an orderly fashion. They then weave out of
the rotary to the desired direction
Introduction
Definitions:
• Diverging: the dividing of a single stream of traffic into separate
streams.
• Merging: the converging of separate streams of traffic into a single
stream.
• Weaving: the combined movement of merging and diverging of
traffic streams moving in the same general direction.
• Weaving Length: the length of a section of a rotary in which
weaving occurs.
• Intersection Angle: the angle between two intersection legs.
Advantages of rotary Intersections

 An orderly and regimented traffic flow is provided. Individual traffic


movements are subordinated in favor of traffic as a whole.
 All traffic proceeds at a fairly uniform speed. Frequent stopping and
starting are avoided.
 Weaving replaces the usual crossing movements at typical at-grade
intersection. Direct conflict is eliminated, all traffic streams merging or
diverting at small angles. Accident occurring from such movement
are usually of a minor nature
 Rotaries are especially suited for intersections with five or more
intersection legs though these can also be adopted at intersections with 3
or 4 legs.
 For moderate traffic, rotaries are self-governing and need no control by
police or traffic signals.
Disadvantages of rotary Intersections

 Once the rotary has locked up the movement of vehicles


completely stops and the traffic will have to be ultimately sorted out
by the police.
 A rotary requires a comparatively larger area and may not be
feasible in many built up locations.
 Where pedestrian traffic is large, a rotary by itself is not sufficient
to control traffic and has to be supplemented by traffic police.
 Where the angle of intersection between two road is too acute, it
becomes difficult to provide adequate weaving length.
 The provision of rotaries at close interval makes travel troublesome.
 Traffic turning right has to travel a little extra distance.
Criteria for selecting rotaries
 When traffic entering from all approaches are equal

 Can handle volumes up to 3000 veh per hr

 When proportion of right turning traffic is more than 30 %

 Complex intersection geometry and more than 4 approaches


Design elements of rotary
• Design speed: 30 and 40 km per hr at urban and rural areas

• Radius at entry: depends on design speed, super elevation and coef


of friction. 20m and 25m for urban and rural areas.

• Exit radius: higher than entry radius,1.5 to 2 times entry radius

• Central island radius: higher radius than entry radius so that the
traffic already in rotary will have priority, 1.3 times entry radius
Design elements of rotary
• Width at entry and exit :is lower than width of carriage way at
approaches to enable reduction in speed
• Width of weaving Section: The width of the weaving section of the
rotary should be one traffic lane (3.5m) wider than the mean entry
width there to.
• Ratio of weaving length is 4 times weaving width for smooth
merging diverging operations
• Capacity of the Rotary: Capacity of the individual weaving sections
is given by an empirical formula proposed by Transportation road
research lab
Conditions for capacity formula
• The Capacity of the Rotary will be calculated
• P = Practical capacity of the weaving section of the rotary in
passenger car units (Pcu) per hour.
• w= width of weaving section in metres(within the range of 6-18 m)
• e=average entry width in metres
• e/w to be within a range of 0.4 to 1.00
• l= length in metres of the weaving section between the
ends of channelizing islands (w/l to be within the range 0.12 and
0.4, l available should be between 18 and 90 m)
• p=proportion of weaving traffic, i.e., ratio of sum of crossing
streams to the total traffic on the weaving section
• (p=(b+c)/(a+b+c+d)), range of being 0.4 to 1.0
What is roundabout
What is roundabout
• Yielding concept: This rule establishes that the right of way belongs
to the driver who is coming from the right, and the driver coming
from the left should yield to him.

• No merging or diverging ie Absence of weaving

• Smaller central island (better visibility to approach driver)


• Pedestrians are not allowed to use the central island
• No parking in the circle
• Circulating vehicles always have the ROW.
Rotary vs roundabout
This image is of a conversion of a Rotary into a
Roundabout in Kingston, NY, off of I-87. Here
the size difference between the two traffic
devices is clearly indicated; where an
approximate rotary diameter is greater than
600 feet, an approximate roundabout diameter
is less than 300 feet.
Identify this rotary
Magic roundabout
Magic round about
Magic round about
• This roundabout is at an intersection of five
roadways, comprising one large centre
roundabout and five smaller (mini)
roundabouts. Traffic flow around the larger,
inner roundabout is anti-clockwise, whereas
traffic flows in the usual clockwise direction
around the five mini-roundabouts and the
outer loop.
• Magic roundabouts are also known as "Ring
Junctions".
Roundabouts – different from circles
Advantages:
 Provides non-stop
movements
 Reduce crash
occurrences
 Reduce crash severity

In Australia  Esthetically appealing


 Function as a traffic
calming measure

Good for low to


medium traffic.
Definitely NOT for
high volume
intersections  Too
In Maryland many weavings In Norway
THANK YOU

Photo: Maryland SHA

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