University of Wisconsin-Madison

Driving Modern Roundabouts: Rules of the Road

Washington State Department of Transportation: 10 minutes
Copyright: 2002
Language(s): English
Format: DVD 
This video shows how to drive through a roundabout and explains the rules of the road for roundabouts. The rules are illustrated using video of traffic in a multi-lane roundabout. Content also includes discussion of truck, pedestrian and bicycle travel through roundabouts. This video is appropriate for presentation to officials and the public when roundabouts are proposed or are being opened to traffic.

Markings and Islands

International Road Federation (IRF): 19 minutes
Copyright: 1994
Language(s): English
Format: VHS 
The information in this video, based on the U.S. “Manual On Uniform Traffic Control Devices,” covers the design and application of marking and islands.

Night Lights

American Traffic Safety Services Association (ATSSA): 13 minutes
Copyright: 2000
Language(s): English
Format: CD 
CD explains how retroreflectivity improves signs and pavement marking. A range of driving scenarios show the need for reflective features. This is a useful CD for the public, law enforcement officers, and elected officials. (VHS version also available, #18787)

Night Lights

American Traffic Safety Services Association (ATSSA): 13 minutes
Copyright: 2000
Language(s): English
Format: VHS 
Video explains how retroreflectivity improves signs and pavement marking. A range of driving scenarios show the need for reflective features. This is a useful video for the public, law enforcement officers, and elected officials. (CD version also available, #18786)

Right Before Your Eyes

American Traffic Safety Services Association (ATSSA): 10 minutes
Copyright: 1992
Language(s): English
Format: VHS 
Emphasizes the importance of a pavement marking system. It presents options for improving the quality and longevity of a pavement marking system. It is ideal for showing to citizens and elected officials.

Roundabouts in Kansas

Kansas Department of Transportation: 10 minutes
Copyright: 2004
Language(s): English
Format: DVD 
Offering a good overview of roundabouts, this veido describes the safety improvements and traffic delay reductions provided by roundabouts, explains how to drive through a single-lane roundabout using a driver’s-eye-view 3D animation, and gives examples of the safety improvements and delay reductions realized through construction of roundabouts in Kansas.

Roundabouts: The Wisconsin Experience

Wisconsin Department of Transportation and Brown County Planning Commission: 12 minutes
Language(s): English
Format: VHS 
Local government officials and staff are the intended audience for this videotape, which discusses the safety advantages of roundabouts and the experiences of communities in Wisconsin who have constructed roundabouts. Content includes interviews with local engineering, public works, police, and school officials, who discuss their experiences with the implementation of roundabouts.

Setting Speed Limits

Vermont Local Roads: 10 minutes
Copyright: 1994
Language(s): English
Format: VHS 
The importance of the need for completing a traffic engineering study before setting speed limits is discussed. It includes six important factors to be investigated.

Sign Maintenance and Installation

U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) - Federal Highway Administration (FHWA): 27 minutes
Language(s): English
Format: VHS 
Presents:

1. Procedures to track and prioritize sign maintenance.
2. Traffic control devices and proper use.
3. Field operation equipment tools and proper placement of signs.

Signs, Marking and Delineation

U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) - Federal Highway Administration (FHWA): 43 minutes
Copyright: 1989
Language(s): English
Format: VHS 
Discusses basic principles of the various devices. It also presents basic installation and maintenance procedures and also some marking procedures. Describes some of the negative aspects of improper delineation, signing and marking.

Special Use Traffic Controls

International Road Federation (IRF): 17 minutes
Copyright: 1994
Language(s): English
Format: VHS 
This video covers special use traffic controls for potentially hazardous traffic conditions.

The Case for Roundabouts

Federal Highway Administration and Educational Media Group: 10 minutes
Copyright: 2001
Language(s): English
Format: VHS 
For local government officials and staff, this videotape discusses safety improvements, capacity increase, cost reduction and traffic delay reduction provided by roundabouts.

Traffic Control: What Works?

Minnesota Local Road Research Board: 13 minutes
Copyright: 1996
Language(s): English
Format: VHS 
This video provides good information on how public officials develop reasonable research based traffic control strategies and apply engineering judgment in selecting traffic control devices.

Traffic Control Devices

U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) - Federal Highway Administration (FHWA): 24 minutes
Copyright: 1989
Language(s): English
Format: VHS 
Stresses the importance of a good signing program, particularly the maintenance aspect of both traffic control signals as well as the signs and marking systems.

Traffic Control Signals at Intersections

International Road Federation (IRF): 18 minutes
Copyright: 1994
Language(s): English
Format: VHS 
Describes basically how engineers determine if a signal is needed, how signal controller phasing works, and how signal timing works.

Traffic Controls for Schools, Railroad Crossings, and Bicycle Facilities

International Road Federation (IRF): 24 minutes
Copyright: 1994
Language(s): English
Format: VHS 
Covers traffic controls under three traffic control conditions requiring extra safety considerations: schools, railroad crossings and bicycle facilities.

Traffic Sign Inspection and Maintenance

International Road Federation (IRF): 21 minutes
Copyright: 1994
Language(s): English
Format: VHS 
Covers sign inspection and maintenance.

Traffic Sign Placement and Location

International Road Federation (IRF): 22 minutes
Copyright: 1994
Language(s): English
Format: VHS 
Covers the placement and location of signs in general and specifically their placement and location in three areas: urban, rural, and freeways.

Worldwide Traffic Sign Systems Overview

International Road Federation (IRF): 26 minutes
Copyright: 1994
Language(s): English
Format: VHS 
The information in this video is based on the U.S. “Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices”, the “European Road Traffic Rules” from the 1968 Geneva Convention, and the “Inter-American Manual of Traffic Control”. This video covers the types and purposes of the signs that are common to all three systems and reviews the basic design elements for all sign systems.

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