CE-015 Geometric Design of Roundabouts: 5 PDH

Description of the Geometric Design of Roundabouts course

The Geometric Design of Roundabouts online PDH course is a part of the Civil Engineering category of courses.

Roundabouts are a common form of intersection control used throughout the world and increasingly in the United States. The course provides guidance on geometric planning and design, for single and multi-lane roundabouts.

Selection and design of a roundabout, as with any intersection treatment, requires the balancing of competing objectives. These range from transportation-oriented objectives like safety, operational performance, and accessibility for all users to other factors such as economics, land use, aesthetics, and environmental aspects. The course material allows enough flexibility to encourage independent designs and techniques tailored to particular situations while emphasizing performance-based evaluation of those designs.

Roundabouts operate most safely when their geometry forces traffic to enter and circulate at slow speeds. Poor roundabout geometry has been found to negatively impact roundabout operations by affecting driver lane choice and behavior through the roundabout. Many of the geometric parameters are governed by the maneuvering requirements of the design vehicle. Thus, designing a roundabout is a process of determining the optimal balance between safety provisions, operational performance, and accommodation of the design vehicle.

This course is intended for use by civil engineers, transport planners, project managers, construction professionals and others interested in learning about geometric properties of roundabouts.

This course is based on Chapter 6 “Geometric Design” of the National Cooperative Highway Research Program Report 672, “Roundabouts: An Informational Guide”.

Learning Objectives:

At the end of the course, you will learn about:

• Principles of good roundabout design, including speed management, lane arrangement, sight distances, visibility and others
• Size, position and alignment of approaches
• Single-lane roundabouts: geometric design, entry and exit design
• Multilane roundabouts: geometric design, entry and exit design
• Mini roundabouts
• Design details such as pedestrian and bicycle consideration, parking and bus stop consideration, high-speed approaches and materials and design details
• Closely spaced roundabouts and interchanges
• Access management

Refunds and Cancellation Policies

The course is accepted by the Professional Engineering boards in states listed on this page. In an unlikely case the course is not accepted by the board listed on this page, we will refund the full payment and will pay for you to take another course of equivalent monetary and PDH / CEU value. For complete list of courses related to Civil Engineering category of courses please click here.

Length of the Course / Activity

This course is intended to be studied at self-pace and it should take on average of 5 hour to read and be able to comprehend the material to successfully past the online quiz.

Course Quiz

To receive the certificate of completion for the above 5 PDH online Geometric Design of Roundabouts course, you will need to take a 25-question multiple choice quiz based on the reference material supplied and pass with minimum score of 70%. There is no time limit for the quiz and it can be taken multiple times until a passing score of 70% is achieved.

Certificate of Completion

Once you achieve a passing score of 70% on the quiz you will receive and be able to print your Certificate of Completion as a record of your continuing education. PDH Star will keep a record of your certificate for the duration as required by your state of licensure. You will be able to log on to your account and view and print your past Certificate of Completion.

State Acceptance

This course is accepted in all states mandating continuing education:

AK, AL, AR, DE, FL, GA, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, WI, WV, and WY

For detailed state by state requirements click here.

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