Pedestrian Safety Around Roundabouts

Status: Complete
Report Date: 10/13/2025

Summary:

This project produced a “Roundabout Ready: Drive, Walk, Pedal Right!”, which is a public educational video designed to enhance safety and confidence for drivers, pedestrians, and bicyclists when navigating modern roundabouts. Through animation, demonstrations, and expert narration, the video provides step-by-step guidance for safely entering, circulating, and exiting roundabouts, while emphasizing key principles such as yielding, appropriate lane selection, and crosswalk awareness. The video is complemented by this comprehensive research synthesis, which compiles national and Minnesota-based studies to examine real-world pedestrian experiences and driver behavior at roundabouts.

Project Personnel:

Principal Investigator: John Brunkhorst

Co-Principal Investigator: Tim Arvidson, Natalie Fetter, Britt Berner

Technical Liaison: Zachary Johnson

Project Coordinator: David Glyer

Panel Members:
Bradley Estochen - Ramsey County
Curtis Craig - Human Factors Safety Laboratory - U of M
Jodi Teich - Otter Tail County Highway Department
Joe Gustafson - Washington County Public Works - Engineer
Kristi Sebastian - FHWA - Minnesota Division Office
Marcus Culver - City of Brooklyn Park
Mark Wagner - Traffic Engineering
Morris Luke - District 1

Final Deliverables:

Pedestrian Safety Around Roundabouts (Report #2025RIC11)
Roundabouts: A Minnesota Guide for Pedestrians and Cyclists (Other #2025RIC11B)
Roundabout Ready: Drive, Walk, Pedal Right! (Video #2025RIC11V)

Related Materials:

Related Research:

Pedestrian User Experience at Roundabouts

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