Pavement friction is an important topic addressed by transportation agencies to reduce the number of traffic crashes and fatalities caused by poor friction between tires and pavement surface. Pavement friction management (PFM) provides the essential...
Unlike other pavement indices, the skid resistance, or friction, of bituminous pavements behaves differently. After the extension of a new layer, the friction increases as the bitumen film is removed and the aggregates are exposed. The aggregates are...
The evaluation of friction is a key factor in monitoring and controlling runway surface characteristics. For this reason, specific airport management and maintenance are required to continuously monitor the performance characteristics needed to guara...
Skid resistance, or friction, on a road surface is a critical parameter in functional highway assessments, given its direct relationships with safety and accident frequency. Therefore, road administrations must collect friction data across their road...
Traditionally, pavement safety performance in terms of texture, friction, and hydroplaning speed are measured separately via different devices with various limitations. This study explores the feasibility of using a novel 0.1 mm 3D Safety Sensor for...
Effective management of airport pavements is essential for maintaining safety and operational efficiency in air travel. An airport pavement management system (APMS) operates at two levels: the network level, which monitors overall pavement performanc...
Pavement friction plays a crucial role in ensuring the safety of road networks. Accurately assessing friction levels is vital for effective pavement maintenance and for the development of management strategies employed by state highway agencies. Trad...
Accurate assessment of road pavement friction is crucial for maintaining road safety. This study explores the prediction of the friction coefficient (µ) using 3D texture parameters of pavement surfaces. Measurements were conducted on 17 differe...
Runway skid resistance is crucial for the safety of aircrafts. Despite being internationally regulated, investigation reports published by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau and the US National Transportation Safety Board indicate that 4.9–...
Skid resistance is a significant feature that provides consistent traffic safety management for road pavements. An appropriate level of Skid resistance describes the contribution that the pavement surface makes to tire/road friction, and the surface...
The characteristics of pavement texture are key determinants of skid resistance, directly affecting tire-pavement interactions. This study examines the relationship between separated pavement textures and friction coefficients under dry and wet condi...
Diamond grinding is a key concrete pavement restoration technique for concrete pavements. Traffic degrades the serviceability of the concrete pavements, resulting in unsatisfactory skid levels and noise concerns. Diamond grinding is known to enhance...
The development of a linear mixed model to describe the degradation of friction on flexible road pavements to be included in pavement management systems is the aim of this study. It also aims at showing that, at the network level, factors such as tem...
Runway friction is a critical factor in aircraft safety, affecting braking performance during landing and take-off. This study evaluates friction measurement variability and runway life-cycle dynamics at four typical Australian airports, using GripTe...
Runway surface friction is critically important to safe aircraft operations and mostly depends on the surface texture, which provides grip in the presence of contamination and directly affects the friction coefficient in general. Microtexture assessm...
This study proposes a non-contact framework for evaluating the skid resistance of shared roadside pavements to improve cyclist and pedestrian safety. By integrating a friction tester and a laser scanner, we synchronize high-resolution three-dimension...
Very thin asphalt overlays (VTAOs) have been widely used as a cost-effective preventive maintenance measure in various countries. However, because of the complex combinations of aggregate gradations and asphalt materials, the selection of VTAOs is an...
(1) Run-off-road (ROR) crashes are a crucial issue worldwide, resulting in a disproportionate number of traffic deaths. In safety research, macro-level analysis on large datasets is usually conducted by linking explanatory variables to ROR crash freq...