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Publication Number: FHWA-HRT-15-062 Date: October 2015

Publication Number: FHWA-HRT-15-062
Date: October 2015

Assessing Pavement Surface Splash and Spray Impact on Road Users

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FHWA Publication No.:FHWA-HRT-15-062

FHWA Contact: Larry Wiser, HRDI-30, 202-493-3079
larry.wiser@dot.gov

This document is a technical summary of the unpublished Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) report, Splash and Spray Assessment Tool Development Program (FHWA Contract No. DTFH61-08-C-00030), available through the VTechWorks the Virginia Tech institutional repository, managed by the University Libraries, https://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/handle/10919/50550.

Objective

This TechBrief describes the development of an assessment tool to characterize the propensity of highway sections to generate splash and spray during rainfall and the impact of splash and spray on road users.

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Page Owner: Office of Research, Development, and Technology, Office of Infrastructure, RDT

Topics: research, infrastructure, pavements and materials
Keywords: research, infrastructure, pavements and materials, Splash and spray, water film depth, pavement macrotexture, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), occlusion factor, user nuisance
TRT Terms: research, facilities, transportation, highway facilities, roads, parts of roads, pavements
Scheduled Update: Archive - No Update needed

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