Road Markings: Technologies, Materials, and Traffic Safety
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Transportation and Future Mobility".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 January 2026 | Viewed by 42
Special Issue Editors
Interests: traffic signalization; road safety; driver behaviour; logistics
Interests: road markings; glass beads; retroreflectivity; microplastics; sustainability; driver behaviour; road safety
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Dear Colleagues,
The road markings are considered inalienable elements of roadway safety infrastructure. Their influence on the behaviour of drivers—both human and the emerging automated driver—is well documented. Nonetheless, there is a plethora of research voids in this area that need to be filled—your contributions to these topics would valuably enhance the knowledge base.
From the perspective of materials, road markings belong to industrial maintenance coatings; they are deteriorating systems that need periodic maintenance. New materials and new technologies are becoming available and their employment for marking roads may bring breakthrough performance. Simultaneously, this brings the aspects of sustainability and possible emissions – submissions on these environmental topics are welcome and needed for gaining deeper understanding of the areas where interventions are needed.
Hence, we are pleased to invite you to submit your manuscripts—both original research papers and reviews—to this Special Issue. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Influence of road markings on human road users’ behaviour and traffic safety.
- Skid resistance and other functional properties of road markings as examples of practical, immediate effects on the safety of unprotected road users.
- Effects that road markings have on the reliability of automated driving.
- Materials for road markings and their application: new insights into existing technologies and emerging concepts.
- Environmental sustainability aspects of road markings.
- Degradation of road markings and their contribution to environmental pollution.
- Any other issues associated with road markings, with special emphasis on their materials.
We look forward to receiving your contributions,
Prof. Dr. Darko Babic
Dr. Tomasz E. Burghardt
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- road markings
- pavement markings
- thermoplastic markings
- waterborne paints
- retroreflectivity
- smart road markings
- photoluminescent materials
- anti-skid coatings
- durable markings
- nighttime visibility
- wet-night visibility
- contrast ratio
- colour durability
- abrasion resistance
- road safety
- horizontal signage
- longitudinal markings
- transverse markings
- road marking robots
- intelligent transportation systems
- marking degradation
- skid resistance
- friction properties
- maintenance strategies
- life cycle assessment
- driver behaviour
- marking detection
- machine vision
- roadway infrastructure
- road maintenance strategy
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