Driving around turbo-roundabouts vs. conventional roundabouts: Are there advantages regarding pollutant emissions?

P Fernandes, SR Pereira, JM Bandeira… - … journal of sustainable …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
This article addresses the impact of turbo-roundabouts located in urban areas on pollutant
emissions using field measurements of vehicle activity data and road congestion levels. The …

Turboroundabouts along corridors: Analysis of operational and environmental impacts

P Fernandes, NM Rouphail… - Transportation …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
The number of turboroundabouts constructed in Europe has grown steadily in the past
decade. Although there has been extensive work on the operational and environmental …

Turboroundabouts: multicriterion assessment of intersection capacity, safety, and emissions

L Vasconcelos, AB Silva, ÁM Seco… - Transportation …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
A “turboroundabout” is a variation of the conventional multilane roundabout in which spiral
road markings and raised lane dividers force drivers to follow a specific path according to …

[PDF][PDF] Turbo-roundabouts as an alternative to roundabouts in terms of traffic safety, capacity and pollutant emissions

A Anagnostopoulos, F Kehagia - … of the 7th Pan-Hellenic Road …, 2018 - researchgate.net
Well-designed roundabouts improve capacity, safety performance and offer other benefits
such as air quality. In the last decades roundabouts have gained increased political …

Emissions estimation at multilane roundabouts: effects of movement and approach lane

K Salamati, MC Coelho, PJ Fernandes… - Transportation …, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper reports on research that explored how multilane roundabouts located on urban
corridors have affected traffic performance and pollutant emissions generated from vehicles …

Effect of roundabout operations on pollutant emissions

MC Coelho, TL Farias, NM Rouphail - Transportation Research Part D …, 2006 - Elsevier
This research quantifies the traffic and emission impacts of single lane roundabouts in urban
corridors, based on experimental measurements of traffic and using the “Vehicle Specific …

Performance assessment of turbo-roundabouts in corridors

AB Silva, P Mariano, JP Silva - Transportation research procedia, 2015 - Elsevier
There is a widespread agreement in the scientific community that the transformation of a
conventional multi-lane roundabout into a turbo-roundabout results in a significant increase …

[HTML][HTML] Turbo-roundabouts as an instrument for improving the efficiency and safety in urban area: an Italian case study

S Leonardi, N Distefano - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
In recent years, numerous turbo-roundabouts have been built in many European countries.
To date, there are no turbo-roundabouts in Italy and even the regulations do not provide for …

Passenger car equivalent for heavy vehicles crossing turbo-roundabouts

O Giuffrè, A Grana, S Marino, F Galatioto - Transportation research …, 2016 - Elsevier
Turbo-roundabouts represent an innovative scheme of modern roundabouts which provides
a spiraling traffic flow and requires drivers to choose their direction before entering the …

Performance evaluation of basic turbo roundabouts as an alternative to conventional double-lane roundabouts

Z Elhassy, H Abou-Senna… - Transportation research …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Since their introduction in the late 1990s, basic turbo roundabouts have made a great
success in several European countries. Researchers, however, have been unable to reach …