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

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...

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...

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...

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...

building material based on cobble-sized stones, and is used for pavement roads, streets, and buildings. Setts, also called Belgian blocks, are often referred...

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...

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 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...

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...

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)...

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...

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

been replaced with bitumen surfaced roads. Board track racing Boardwalk Corduroy road Duckboards Gallery road Historic roads and trails Marston Mat - a...

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...

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

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

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...

power to be put to the ground because there is a larger surface area making contact with the road. This will improve a vehicle's performance when it comes...

with rock salt and adhered to road surfaces about 40% better than loose rock salt alone. Because it stayed on the road longer, the treatment did not have...

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...

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...

for the suspension to keep the road wheel in contact with the road surface as much as possible, because all the road or ground forces acting on the vehicle...

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

loose material and the texture of the road surface on the traction produced by the wheels of a vehicle. Road slipperiness can be measured either in terms...

funds from the Ministry of Surface Transport under the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways. The BRO consists of Border Roads Wing under the Ministry...