Turbo Roundabout

The Turbo Roundabout is a roundabout that features a pinwheel-esque design, the roundabout is designed to carry medium-high loads of traffic without causing significant jams or blocks.

Main Features

The Turbo Roundabout features up to 3 lanes, and can support large transport vehicles. The turbo roundabout allows for seamless merging and transition into separate roads or highways.

The center of the Turbo Roundabout is where the roundabout diverges from most, due to the use of semicircles as opposed to a traditional whole circle, the roundabout is able to support far easier distinction for the direction in which a vehicle may be headed.

Turbo Roundabout being shown in the TORUS 5.0 roundabout design software

Trivia

The first Turbo Roundabout was built in the Netherlands in 2000, and was engineered in the 1990s by Professor Edward Skissue V.

The Turbo Roundabout gets its name from the initial design being shaped like a turbocharger^[1].

The Turbo Roundabout is mostly contained within Europe, and only a rough estimate of ~400 are contained worldwide. The Netherlands contains 75% of the estimated global amount of Turbo Roundabouts.

Sources and Citations

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Turbocharger with a section cutaway

A turbocharger is a forced induction device that uses air from the engine's exhaust to force more air into the engine, forcing the engine to produce more power.

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Turbocharger with a section cutaway

A turbocharger is a forced induction device that uses air from the engine's exhaust to force more air into the engine, forcing the engine to produce more power.

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