# Highway Safety: Pavements and Shoulders

Federal Highway Administration Video VH-48E Highway Safety: Pavements and Shoulders The functional requirements of pavements and shoulders are described, beginning with the elements of pavements and shoulders and the characteristics that contribute to poor performance. Skid resistance, measurement of pavement friction and polishing aggregates are discussed, along with drainage and vehicle steering factors. Tining, grooving, edge drop-off, roughness, and rutting are also covered. Shoulder types are described and their functions are outlined. Design requirements for shoulder width, strength, cross slope, joint, and contrast are described. Wet weather accidents are shown in a short video segment.

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1989
- By: Federal Highway Administration
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/gov.dot.fhwa.ttp.vh-48e)
- Licence or status: [CC0 1.0](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

Not offered: its uploader or archive marks it public domain, and nothing the site holds bears that out (its record gives no year, or a year from 1978 on, which no US term has left), so where it is free is not known. Unclear is not offered.