Modern Roundabouts, Toxic Emissions & Climate Change
Focus Area
Air Quality
Subcommittee
Air Quality
Status
Archived
Cost
Unknown
Timeframe
Unknown
Research Idea Scope
Investigate the potential benefits of converting traditional cross intersections to modern roundbouts.
Urgency and Payoff
This wholly overlooked infrastructure modification is a very low-tech, sustainable approach that has the potential to reduce mobile source emissions by as much as 25-30% at some intersections, yet is completely off the radar of the environmental community.
Submitted
05/13/2008