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The Safe System Approach,(1) the guiding paradigm of the United States Department of Transportation National Road Safety Strategy,(2) recognizes that system redundancy is crucial to reducing deaths and serious injuries on our Nation’s roads. Where pavements are concerned, this paradigm involves providing adequate levels of friction supply to meet the friction demand (i.e., the level […]