Due to a shortage of glass beads triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, the white lines being painted on Kansas highways this year tend to not reflect light as well as state officials would like. Still, ...

Road markings play an important role in road safety and optimizing the use of road space. They help provide information that cannot be easily conveyed using mounted signs. 1 Moreover, signage applied ...

BOISE, Idaho — Driving on the highway during bad weather can often be a white-knuckle affair. It's even worse if you can't see the painted lines separating the lanes of travel. A KTVB viewer reached ...

INDIANA, USA — Ever driven along an Indiana highway and noticed tiny sparkles lighting your way home? The Indiana Department of Transportation is shedding light on an obscure technology they claim ...

VICTORIA — Lower Mainland drivers will soon have an easier time seeing road lines on provincial highways, as the B.C. government begins to roll out new highly reflective paint. The Ministry of ...

Leroy W. Shuger, a chemist whose development of reflectorized paints made the world’s roads safer, died of heart failure June 6 at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was 87 and lived in Pikesville. Dr. Shuger ...