Progress and Monitoring Opportunities of Skid Resistance in Road Transport: A Critical Review and Road Sensors

• Published in: Remote sensing (Basel, Switzerland) Vol. 13; no. 18; p. 3729
• Main Authors: Rasol, Mezgeen, Schmidt, Franziska, Ientile, Silvia, Adelaide, Lucas, Nedjar, Boumediene, Kane, Malal, Chevalier, Christophe
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 01-09-2021; MDPI
• Subjects: Civil Engineering; Data analysis; Data collection; Driving ability; Driving conditions; Engineering Sciences; Equipment acquisition planning; Friction; Friction resistance; Hydroplaning; Influence; infrastructure assessment; Infrastructures de transport; Interoperability; Measurement techniques; Mechanics; NDT; Pavements; Remote sensing; Resistance factors; road friction; Road transportation; Roads; Roads & highways; Rubber; Safety management; Sensors; Skid resistance; Skidding; State-of-the-art reviews; Structural mechanics; Tires; Traffic; Traffic accidents; Traffic accidents & safety; Traffic management; Transportation systems; Trends; INFRASTRUCTURE (TRANSPORT); INFRASTRUCTURE ASSESSMENT; INTEROPERABILITY; SKID RESISTANCE; EVALUATION; ADHERENCE PNEU ROUTE; TRAITEMENT DES DONNEES; CONTACT PNEU ROUTE; DATA ANALYSIS; ROAD SENSORS; NON DESTRUCTIF; CAPTEUR; ADHERENCE (PNEU ROUTE); ESSAI NON DESTRUCTIF; ROAD FRICTION; NDT
• ISSN: 2072-4292; 2072-4292
• DOI: 10.3390/rs13183729

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 of the road pavement can reduce vehicle operation cost, traffic accidents, and fatalities, particularly in wet conditions. Wet conditions decrease the level of the skid resistance (pavement friction), and this may lead to serious struggles related to driving on the road pavement (e.g., skidding or hydroplaning), which contributes to higher crash rates. The knowledge of skid resistance is essential to ensure reliable traffic management in transportation systems. Thus, a suitable methodology of skid resistance measurement and the understanding of the characterization of the road pavement are key to allow safe driving conditions. This paper presents a critical review on the current state of the art of the research conducted on skid resistance measurement techniques, taking into account field-based and laboratory-based methodologies, and novel road sensors with regard to various practices of skid resistance, factors influencing the skid resistance, the concept of the minimum skid resistance and thresholds. In conclusion, new trends that are relevant to data collection approaches and innovative procedures to further describe the data treatment are discussed to achieve better understanding, more accurate data interoperability, and proper measurement of skid resistance.