Wednesday, October 16, 2013

TV Show Puts Roundabouts to the Test

I don't watch a lot of TV but here's an episode of the popular show Mythbusters that I would have watched. In this episode, the Mythbusters put the roundabout up against 4-way stops. Are roundabouts really more efficient at moving traffic through an intersection? And if so, by how much? Let's take a look.

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SRTC is the federally designated Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for Spokane County. Urbanized areas with populations exceeding 50,000 people are required to have an MPO. SRTC was formed to address the county's transportation planning needs. It provides coordination in planning between the public, cities, small towns, the county, the state, transit providers, and tribes.

SRTC offers services including transportation monitoring, transportation modeling, census information analysis, travel demand forecasting, historical traffic count analysis, geographic information systems, and trip generation rates.