"The nation’s 11th-largest airport is a pilot airport for a new type of road surface that holds deicing fluid in place, keeping it from running off.

SafeLane surface overlay is an anti-skid, anti-icing road surface. It has been applied on top of portions of maintenance and service roads at the airport.

As a result, the roads are safer and require less deicing chemicals, and it has reduced labor and purchasing costs, said Michael Conway, a Wayne County Airport Authority spokesman."