Assessing Pavement Friction Need for Safe Integration of Autonomous Vehicles into Current Road System

Safe integration of autonomous vehicles (AVs) into the current public road system may imply potential improvements to roadway infrastructure. However, the current research effort is lacking in one of the important infrastructure to vehicle (I2V) areas, that is, roadway conditions, especially pavement friction. Motivated by the fact that pavement friction plays a critical role in safe driving for conventional vehicles and the fact that rear-end …