Originally Posted by
TheOddOne
For a change, here's a reporter using correct terminology. In the United Kingdom, we refer to the hard surfaces used by aircraft at aerodromes as 'pavement', certainly in my 31 years in Ops at major UK airports. It's ICAO-speak, too.
It's also what those in the roads sector and engineering in general refer to the road surface as. E.g. we have Pavement Management Systems and similar asset management tools, which deals with the entire paved area rather than just the occasional bit of what laymen would call a pavement. Which, incidentally, are actually called footways.