Skid Resistance Measurement: Essential Questions

The first issue I would like to bring up is the matter of Skid Resistance Measurement.

The some key issues that come to mind are:

• What’s the value and what’s the cost?

• Does the current collection equipment meet the need?

• Is the information derived from the collected data actionable?

• What’s the value of proactive measurement vs reactive measurement and what is the relative cost?

• What is the required accuracy and resolution for the data to be informative and actionable?

As you can see from this list, there is much to delve into relative to this pavement metric alone.

In the coming weeks, I will attempt to present my thoughts on each of the issues above, not as golden solutions, but as jumping off points for in-depth discussion that will improve both the state-of-the-art and the state-of-the-practice.