Effectiveness of Pavement Grooving in Skidding Prevention on Horizontal Curves
Publication: Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part B: Pavements
Volume 148, Issue 4
Abstract
Pavement grooving is an accepted remedial measure to improve skid resistance and reduce crash rates on horizontal curves. However, besides experience-based guidelines, currently no mechanistic procedure is available for quantitative evaluation of the effectiveness of a pavement grooving design in skidding prevention on horizontal curves. To ensure driving safety on wet horizontal curves in particular, there is a practical need for a reliable procedure to determine the effectiveness of a pavement grooving design in increasing tire–pavement skid resistance and the maximum safe driving speed. With the aim to bridge the knowledge gap, this paper presents a computer simulation procedure based on the finite-element method to evaluate the effectiveness of a pavement grooving design in terms of its ability to increase the maximum safe vehicle speed and reduce skidding potential on a wet horizontal curve. For illustration, three common grooving designs were considered, each having a different groove width, depth, and spacing. For each grooving design, two orientations of grooving, namely longitudinal and transverse grooves, were studied. The simulation model allowed different operating conditions to be analyzed, including different geometric dimensions of a horizontal curve, pavement surface properties, and pavement surface water film thicknesses. The analysis not only confirmed past observations and measurements that longitudinal grooving was significantly more effective than transverse grooving in raising pavement skid resistance and the maximum safe driving speed on horizontal curves, but also quantitatively provided their respective magnitudes of improvement.
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Data Availability Statement
All data, models, and code that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request:
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Test pavement surface condition data.
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Finite-element skid resistance simulation model.
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Numerical example results.
Acknowledgments
The authors gratefully acknowledge financial support by the Sichuan Province Transportation Technology Project 2021-C-04 and Shaanxi Science and Technology Project 2021JQ-261.
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Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part B: Pavements
Volume 148 • Issue 4 • December 2022
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Received: May 26, 2021
Accepted: Jul 10, 2022
Published online: Sep 14, 2022
Published in print: Dec 1, 2022
Discussion open until: Feb 14, 2023
ASCE Technical Topics:
- Curvature
- Design (by type)
- Engineering fundamentals
- Geometry
- Highway and road design
- Infrastructure
- Load and resistance factor design
- Load factors
- Mathematics
- Pavement design
- Pavements
- Sight distances
- Skid resistance
- Structural design
- Traffic engineering
- Traffic management
- Traffic safety
- Traffic speed
- Transportation engineering
- Vehicle-pavement interaction
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