Garder cited in Daytona Beach News-Journal article on roundabouts
Per Garder, a civil engineering professor at the University of Maine, was cited in The Daytona Beach News-Journal article, “Florida studies show roundabouts safer than signals, signs.” Garder, who has been working on designing safe roundabouts since 1975, said lower and more predictable speeds needed to maneuver in roundabouts are the biggest reason they’re safer, but they “calm” traffic in other ways, too. “When we know what is coming, we relax,” Garder wrote in an email. “When we drive on an arterial, and there is a green light in front of us for 60 seconds, almost a mile of driving, we expect the reward of keeping that green light when we get there. Then it suddenly changes, our cake is taken away from us, and we get frustrated and speed up rather than stop.”