Safety, skid resistance and noise of roads highly depend on the characteristics of pavement
surface texture, for both porous and dense-graded wearing courses. In the light of the above …

The main functional characteristics of pavement (friction, noise, drainability, and rolling
resistance) are strictly related to the surface texture. Considering its importance, it would be …

Road performance (eg, rolling resistance, friction, noise, and hydroplaning) is affected by
surface macrotexture. The characteristics above need to be controlled and predicted at the …

Pavement skid resistance, affecting wet-road accidents, deteriorates over time because of
material properties, laying conditions, weather/seasonal effects and traffic. Skid resistance …

Bituminous mixtures with low nominal maximum aggregate size, NMAS, have appreciable
acoustic performance. Their surface texture is crucial to balance acoustic-and safety-related …

Pavement surface characteristics play an important role in accident occurring, especially in
wet conditions: the optimization of surface performance starting from hot mix asphalt (HMA) …

Safety aspects, as dry and wet friction and splash and spray phenomena, and environmental
aspects, as rolling noise, in-vehicle noise and rolling resistance are highly affected by the …

Asphalt pavement surface macrotexture has an important role in traffic safety. It contributes
to skid resistance especially on roads where higher speeds are developed and under the …

It is a consolidated knowledge that road macrotexture affects direct primary aspects related
to road safety as friction or aquaplaning and secondary aspects related to environmental …

Abstract The Mean Profile Depth (MPD) is the synthetic index worldwide used to describe
the macrotexture of road pavement surfaces. MPD is evaluated from two dimensional …