A large chunk of the road looks to have broken off, creating a big pot hole and causing drivers some flat tires. It's unclear what caused the roadway to break. A traffic break was in effect for ...

Other pavement materials, like concrete, are considered “rigid.” When it gets hot, asphalt gets soft and malleable. And when soft asphalt has the tremendous amount of torque of large buses pushing ...

"That's an extremely large void," he added. "Had the pavement collapsed and a car fallen into it, it could have been much more serious in nature as opposed to us being able to find this void." ...

Concrete interstate pavement also must reliably support a large proportion of the nation's traffic. More than half of U.S. states with concrete interstate pavement have signed up to participate in ...

Michigan roads face a disadvantage the moment they're installed, with the region's wet-freeze climate, possibly the harshest in the U.S. When asphalt or concrete pavement gets cold, it contracts.

When considering how cars and trucks generate such a large part ... of asphalt, concrete, or even gravel; whether it's a narrow ribbon winding around mountains, an endless flat stretch across ...