The composition of the asphalt mixture making up a road can determine how safe it is for cars to drive on. Tarik Seker/iStock via Getty Images Plus More than 90% of paved roads in the U.S. are made of ...

There are about 2.8 million miles of roads in the United States, and 94% of that is made of asphalt. The biggest player in this space is an Irish company, CRH, which made $10.2 billion paving roads in ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Mansour Solaimanian, Penn State (THE CONVERSATION) While on the road, you’re probably ...

Audrey Copeland, president and CEO of the National Asphalt Pavement Association, spoke with ENR’s transportation editor Aileen Cho at CONEXPO-CON/AGG earlier this month about sustainable pavements and ...

Granite created an asphalt mix using plastic waste for Kansas Asphalt. Photo courtesy Kansas Asphalt Inc. February 16, 2022 A s a result of a partnership with Kansas Asphalt Inc., and the big-box ...

On a typical summer day, it might be 10-12 degrees cooler in leafy sections of Boston than it is downtown, because unshaded pavement and roofs absorb and radiate so much heat. Reducing pavement or ...

In 1999, a lightning storm ignited 7 million scrap tires piled on the slopes of a canyon near Westley, California. A near-apocalyptic scene erupted, according to a 2001 US Environmental Protection ...