Development of a Pavement Friction Management Program for Illinois - Phase II

Friction between pavement and vehicles is a key part to highway safety, allowing drivers to change directions safely as well as reducing skidding or hydroplaning. This effort builds off Illinois Center for Transportation and Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) project R27-264, which developed a statewide management program for pavement friction by using statistical modeling to correlate pavement friction and safety analysis. In this project, researchers will use pavement friction data for Illinois’ road network to further enhance the developed program, continue revisions to the friction aggregate mixture policy and conduct pilot implementation in a few IDOT districts. The enhanced program will allow IDOT to identify areas with elevated safety risks and determine improvements to friction to reduce crashes, increasing safety for roadway users.

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $836,702.00
• Contract Numbers:

  R27-297

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Illinois Department of Transportation

  Bureau of Research
  2420 South Dirksen Parkway
  Springfield, IL  United States  62764
• Managing Organizations:

  University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

  Illinois Center for Transportation
  1611 Titan Drive
  Rantoul, IL  United States  61866
• Performing Organizations:

  University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

  Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory
  Urbana, IL  United States  61801-2352

  Arora and Associates, P.C.

  Lawrenceville, NJ  United States 

  Rutgers University

  Piscataway, NJ  United States  08901
• Principal Investigators:

  Ouyang, Yanfeng

  Hajj, Ramez

  Tobias, Priscilla

  Wang, Hao

• Start Date: 20260816
• Expected Completion Date: 20300815
• Actual Completion Date: 0
• USDOT Program: Research and Development

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Friction; Highway safety; Pavement management systems; Risk assessment
• Geographic Terms: Illinois
• Subject Areas: Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Pavements; Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01999442
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Illinois Department of Transportation
• Contract Numbers: R27-297
• Files: RIP, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Aug 17 2026 10:55AM