As of 2025, a more systematic approach is coming to the fore in Türkiye’s road construction and maintenance equipment sector, both in terms of applied technologies and standards compliance. A production and supply approach that addresses safety, performance, and environmental requirements together for road rollers, asphalt pavers, and compactors is becoming increasingly evident in the product portfolios of both domestic manufacturers and global brands operating in Türkiye.
Sectoral and Technical Development
Machines in the soil roller, asphalt roller, and compactor classes are offered in vibratory, tandem, pneumatic, and single-drum types in order to achieve the desired compaction levels in subgrade and asphalt layers in a more controlled manner. In the Turkish market, it is known that rollers with capacities and drum geometries suitable for different project scales are used, and that a wide range of tonnage and drum width options are preferred in highway, urban road, airport, and large infrastructure projects.
On the asphalt paver side, solutions with increasing levels of automation are being offered to ensure homogeneity of material distribution and control of paving thickness. In asphalt distributors and emulsion sprayers, functions such as temperature and flow monitoring, adjustment of paving width, and management of the spraying regime can be supported by electronic control systems.
In next-generation road equipment, sensor-based control modules, telemetry infrastructures, and advanced cabin layouts are increasingly being evaluated to monitor compaction performance, track work cycles, and improve operator comfort. These approaches form a technical framework that jointly supports machine efficiency and occupational safety objectives.
Standards and Certification Framework
Safety requirements for mobile road construction machinery are addressed within the scope of the European Standard EN 500 series. EN 500-1 defines general safety requirements against accident and health risks that may arise during use, loading, transport, and maintenance in the design and manufacture of mobile road construction machinery.
EN 500-4 of the same series regulates additional safety requirements for compaction machines defined as “compaction machines.” This section includes specific provisions regarding significant hazards that rollers and compactors may encounter during operation, foreseeable misuse, and the measures to be taken against them.
For asphalt pavers (paver-finishers), EN 500-6 introduces specific safety requirements by defining hazards that may arise around material feeding systems, the screed area, working platforms, control stations, and maintenance points. EN 500-6 is positioned as complementary to the common requirements set out in EN 500-1.
Where rollers are considered within the “earth-moving machinery” class, EN 474-13 extends the general safety requirements defined in EN 474-1 with supplementary provisions specific to rollers. This document defines a safety framework for managing significant hazards that may arise throughout the design, use, and maintenance life of rollers.
Operator field of vision remains an important safety topic for road equipment as well. The ISO 5006 standard defines a static test method and performance criteria for the operator’s ability to see the area around the machine, setting out engineering principles related to operator visibility.
Aggregate and filler properties used in asphalt and bituminous mixtures for road construction are defined by the EN 13043 standard. This standard describes the physical and mechanical properties of aggregates for bituminous mixtures used in roads, airports, and other traffic areas, providing a material-based reference for pavement quality.
This overall picture shows that machine safety in road equipment and pavement material quality are managed through different, yet interrelated, sets of standards.
National and International Framework
Equipment used in road construction and maintenance projects in Türkiye is supplied to the market through both domestic manufacturers and the local representatives of international brands. Machine groups such as road and soil rollers, asphalt finishers, asphalt distributors, and chip and emulsion sprayers are widely used in highway, urban road, airport, and industrial site projects.
Reports on Türkiye’s construction equipment market indicate that road construction and infrastructure investments support demand in the road equipment segment, including rollers and road construction machinery. Public investments in road, infrastructure, and urban transformation projects are among the factors increasing interest in environmentally friendly and efficient machine solutions.
At the international level, EN 13043 and related test standards for materials used in road pavements, as well as documents such as the EN 500 and EN 474 series and ISO 5006 on the machinery side, are among the key references contributing to the safe and predictable operation of road equipment. Environmental requirements are addressed through Non-Road Mobile Machinery (NRMM) regulations and emission limits, while lower emission targets are prioritized for engines and power systems.
R&D and Engineering Dimension
R&D activities in road equipment focus on monitoring compaction quality, enhancing operator safety, and increasing machine efficiency. Solutions related to vibration management, drum frequency and amplitude adjustment, contact pressure, and weight distribution are developed with the aim of achieving compaction performance adaptable to ground conditions.
In asphalt paving processes, monitoring parameters such as temperature and layer thickness is critical to ensuring continuity of paving quality. Road equipment manufacturers and suppliers are focusing on developing solutions that facilitate tracking of these parameters through digital dashboards, automatic control modules, and monitoring systems.
Ergonomics in the operator cabin, reduction of noise and vibration levels, simplification of control layouts, and improvement of the field of vision are also among the prominent engineering topics. In occupational safety practices, operator training, the use of personal protective equipment, and procedures for proper equipment operation are widely emphasized at road construction sites.
In Türkiye, these technical and standards-based approaches in road equipment production and supply point to a transformation trajectory that supports asphalt and compactor technologies with safer, more controlled, and more traceable solutions. Models developed and introduced to the market in the roller, asphalt paver, and compactor classes represent an efficient and reliable technical infrastructure aligned with international standards, both in urban applications and large infrastructure projects.
