Airport Pavement Detail

Awards for Excellence

South New Jersey Professional Societies Awards

International graduate school delegation

Method to Identify and Quantify Multiple-Event Roughness

Report number: DOT/FAA/TC-23/09 Authors: Tony Gerardi and Michael Gerardi

ProGroove 4.0

ProGroove software is used to identify grooves. Transverse grooves in an airport pavement allow water to be ejected from beneath the tires of an aircraft moving at high speed. It has been found that the grooves can efficiently reduce the hydroplaning potential of a pavement during wet weather.