A road surface (British English) or pavement (North American English) is the durable surface material laid down on an area intended to sustain vehicular...

Road surface marking is any kind of device or material that is used on a road surface in order to convey official information; they are commonly placed...

Tarmacadam is a road surfacing material made by combining tar and macadam (crushed stone and sand), patented by Welsh inventor Edgar Purnell Hooley in...

the surface stones smaller than the width of a wheel made for a good running surface. The small surface stones also provided low stress on the road, so...

importance of selecting clean stones for surfacing while excluding vegetable material and clay, resulting in more durable roads. By the late 18th and early 19th...

A road is a thoroughfare for the conveyance of traffic that mostly has an improved surface for use by vehicles (motorized and non-motorized) and pedestrians...

the road surface. Contact patch— The contact patch, or footprint, of the tire, is the area of the tread that is in contact with the road surface. This...

and the Republic of Ireland) is a composite material commonly used to surface roads, parking lots, airports, and the core of embankment dams. Asphalt mixtures...

the metal road deck under traffic, a special surface of modified bitumen was installed by research teams from Appia (company) [fr]. The surface is somewhat...

In road and highway construction, a gore (or nose in modern British English) is a triangular plot of land as designated when a road forks at the intersection...

A gravel road is a type of unpaved road surfaced with gravel that has been brought to the site from a quarry or stream bed. Gravel roads are common in...

a segment of road built to reroute the mainline away from a city or congested area. Cab Cant or camber The gradient of the road surface at 90° to the...

flat erosion surfaces receive the names of peneplain, paleoplain, planation surface or pediplain. An example of erosion surface is road surface erosion which...

ones. Virtually all road rollers in use today use diesel power. Road rollers use the weight of the vehicle to compress the surface being rolled (static)...

is the portion of a vehicle's tire that is in actual contact with the road surface. It is commonly used in the discussion of pneumatic (i.e. pressurized)...

the bowl stops (not where it leaves the road surface), a chalk mark is made at the nearest point on the road and the next throw is taken from behind that...

texts (sometimes bilingual) The meaning and colour-coding of horizontal road surface markings Warning signs in Ireland are yellow and diamond-shaped (as in...

An ice road or ice bridge is a human-made structure that runs on a frozen water surface (a river, a lake or a sea water expanse). Ice roads are typically...

Thermoplastic road marking paint, also called hot melt marking paint, is a kind of powder paint. When applied as road surface markings, a hot melt kettle...

of a road vehicle, aircraft or other wheeled vehicle occurs when a layer of water builds between the wheels of the vehicle and the road surface, leading...

locking up during braking, thereby maintaining tractive contact with the road surface and allowing the driver to maintain more control over the vehicle. ABS...

or paving may refer to: Road surface, the durable surfacing of roads and walkways Sidewalk, a walkway along the side of a road, called a pavement in British...

roadway before it can infiltrate into the road's subbase, increasing the life expectancy of the road surface. Shoulders help provide extra structural support...

periodic, transverse ripples in the surface of gravel and dirt roads. Washboarding occurs in dry, granular road material with repeated traffic, traveling...

used on rural roads carrying lower traffic volumes, and the process is often referred to as asphaltic surface treatment. This type of surface has a variety...

panels. The final step often involves diamond-grinding of the entire road surface to remove any bumps or dips. Without the dowel bar retrofit this grinding...

are widely used on signage and for wayfinding, and are often used in road surface markings. Upward arrows are often used to indicate an increase in a numerical...

A road is a thoroughfare, route, or way on land between two places that has been surfaced or otherwise improved to allow travel by foot or some form of...

dirt road or track is a type of unpaved road not paved with asphalt, concrete, brick, or stone; made from the native material of the land surface through...

material used for the road and the desired function or need. For example, a Portland concrete curb used with an asphalt concrete road surface provides a highly...