Technische Universität Berlin - kd-visions
Technische Universität Berlin - kd-visions
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design of the roundabout‘s centre island. The next step was to determine all of the current<br />
applicable design concepts and their advantages and disadvantages and additionally to show<br />
the expected cost levels and make them comparable to each other. The chapter concludes<br />
with a self-developed typology key which simplifies the process of making extensive catalogues<br />
and comparisons in an easily understandable presentation.<br />
6.3 Conclusion<br />
The roundabout, from a traffic planning point of view, is an important, modern and notably<br />
effective instrument to current traffic management. Since the beginning of their existence,<br />
roundabouts have been apart of traffic management research and have been gradually optimized.<br />
At the same time, examining the roundabouts from a creative, architectural design<br />
point of view is still a nearly unexploited field of work.<br />
It became clear that to activate this unused potential it is essential to examine roundabouts<br />
from an interdisciplinary perspective in the future.<br />
As a result of this work, one has a text which goes beyond the current points of view and<br />
most importantly explores new views and possibilities. It also provides a compendium which<br />
coherently presents all of the methods that impact roundabout design, including traffic<br />
planning, user considerations and creative design.<br />
In addition, with the typology key, successfully a tool could be developed which will help<br />
designers that are unfamiliar with roundabouts to carry out the required working steps like<br />
categorising, comparing and visualizing roundabouts in a very easy and fast method. As a<br />
result, there is now an organizational instrument for gathering and looking at roundabouts<br />
and their creative design comprehensively.<br />
In spite of this analysis, the future of the roundabouts is still not to be predicted unambiguously.The<br />
principle reason for the low adoption of the creative design potentials lies not with<br />
underdeveloped or poorly conceived design concepts, but with the understanding of the<br />
planners, users and decisive bearers for these spaces. This understanding will need to<br />
change for the potential to be realized.<br />
The traffic planning, sociological and landscape architectural frameworks for a new design of<br />
roundabouts exist. The knowledge about the potential that these spaces hold must merely<br />
spread and be communicated to all the proper stakeholders.<br />
It would be desirable if this work contributes, through increased awareness of the readers,<br />
to a new understanding of roundabouts and their space in the future.<br />
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