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                        Case Study: Kentucky Transportation Cabinet's High Friction Surface Treatment and Field Installation Program


            
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        Pavement Friction
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                Technical Report Documentation Form
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**1. Report No.**
			FHWA-SA-15-038
			**2. Government Accession No.**
			**3. Recipient's Catalog No.****4. Title and Subtitle**

			Case Study: Kentucky Transportation Cabinet's High Friction Surface Treatment and Field Installation Program
			**5. Report Date**

			February 2015**6. Performing Organization Code****7. Author(s)**

			Harold Von Quintus, P.E., Andy Mergenmeier, P.E.
			**8. Performing Organization Report No.****9. Performing Organization Name and Address**

			Applied Research Associates, Inc.
			100 Trade Centre Drive, Suite 200
			Champaign, IL 61820
			**10. Work Unit No. (TRAIS)****11. Contract or Grant No.****12. Sponsoring Agency Name and Address**

			United States Department of Transportation
			Federal Highway Administration
			1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
			Washington, DC 20590
			**13. Type of Report and Period Covered**

			Case Study**14. Sponsoring Agency Code**

			HSA**15. Supplementary Notes**

			Contracting Officer's Technical Manager: Andy Mergenmeier**16. Abstract**

			Roadway departure fatalities account for approximately 65 percent of all fatalities in Kentucky. One of the methods KYTC identified to meet the roadway departure goal was the application of high friction surface treatments (HFST). HFST provides a durable and long-lasting solution to specific and defined roadway locations where a contributing factor in crashes is that the roadway friction demand exceeds the available pavement surface friction. This document provides an overview of Kentucky's efforts to establish an HFST program for reducing roadway crashes and fatalities as well as the State's standards, guidance, and specifications for using this safety treatment strategy as a practice to reduce roadway departures at select road sections. It also identifies and discusses the various elements to consider when selecting candidate roadway segments for placing HFSTs and lists some of the important insights and lessons learned from the Kentucky program.**17. Key Words**

			High friction surface treatment, roadway friction demand, roadway departure, safety countermeasures, horizontal curves
			**18. Distribution Statement**

			No restrictions.**19. Security Classification (of this report)**

			Unclassified
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			**21. No of Pages**

			32
			**22. Price**

			N/AForm DOT F 1700.7 (8-72)
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                Executive Summary
                SECTION 1: Introduction
                SECTION 2: Brief History of High Friction Surface Treatments and Their Benefit
                SECTION 3: Kentucky's HFST Program
                SECTION 4: HFST Site Selection Process
                SECTION 5: Data Collection and Analysis in Support of the HFST Program
                SECTION 6: Contracting and Constructing HFST
                SECTION 7: Project Examples of HFST Application
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