Maria Pomoni

National Technical University of Athens | NTUA · Department of Transportation Planning

Road safety is connected with pavement skid resistance which often triggers pavement maintenance issues. So far, many laboratory studies have been conducted trying to find a link between skid resistance and macrotexture. However, the findings cannot be extrapolated always in the field because of the multi-parametric nature of skid resistance. This...

Skid resistance is a key road safety factor indicating the provided friction of a pavement’s surface, which deteriorates over its service life mainly due to traffic polishing. Hence, the polishing behaviour of a pavement’s surface course is important for the provided road safety. For this reason, there have been many studies related to the assessme...

Green-House Gases (GHGs) are emitted into the atmosphere in significant amounts produced mainly by human sources and activities. Globally, the road transport sector is a significant source of GHGs and particularly of CO2 emissions. Transport sector includes pavements and pavement roughness is a factor that directly affects fuel consumption and cons...

One of the challenges of using recycled materials in road structures is to maintain safe and durable pavements. A multitude of research has been conducted over the years on various recycled materials, with a focus on the structural performance of pavements. Another crucial, but almost overlooked, aspect is the pavement’s ability to provide adequate...

Road surface friction, or in other words, a pavement’s skid resistance, is an essential attribute of highway safety, acting as a liaison between the infrastructure condition and the driver’s response to it through proper vehicle maneuvering. The present study reviews aspects related to the tire–road friction, including affecting factors, monitoring...

Pavement friction significantly affects the road safety. Over years, researchers have developed multiple models in an attempt to estimate pavement friction performance. The present study aims at developing a stochastic model for the prediction of short-term friction loss based on field-friction data, which adapts the survival probability analysis i...

Vehicles’ braking is a key factor towards safer driving. In particular, tyre–pavement friction is connected with both industry and infrastructure requirements in terms of tyre characteristics and frictional properties of pavement surfaces respectively that both contribute to safe braking. For this reason, tyre–pavement friction is considered as one...

This paper was conducted in the framework of the "SKILLFUL - Skills and competences development of future transportation professionals at all levels" project, financed by the European Commission. The objective of the paper is to map the major trends of the transport workforce with regards to demographic, behavioural, cultural and socioeconomic fact...

The present study deals with the quantification of skid resistance seasonal variation in asphalt pavements. Consequently, skid resistance data were collected twice per year (after “wet” and “dry” seasons) along four trial sections of an urban highway with a GripTester system (during a six-year field experiment). For the estimation of a percentage r...

Pavement skid resistance is influenced by both pavement macrotexture and microtexture, with the two components providing the skid resistance properties required to assist in ensuring road safety. In addition to these factors the cumulative traffic along a pavement is a known determinant factor influencing pavement surface characteristics leading to...

The initial condition of a newly constructed pavement structure, also known as the zero point, provides valuable information and can be included in pavement management systems. The zero point data for the initial macrotexture level can be gathered both quickly and efficiently by measuring the mean profile depth (MPD) of the pavement surface with a...