Pavement & Sidewalk Management
The following is an outline of the Pavement Management operation.
Data Collection
- Measure and record inventory, history, cross section, materials, traffic/loads, and surface distress. Monitor construction performance and developing trends that effect street conditions.
- Establish measurement criteria, performance goals, and maintenance strategies for review.
Analysis
- Evaluate the real life performance of pavement relative to various parameters, such as thickness design, mix design, material composition and construction specifications.
- Determine the cause of pavement deterioration.
- Differentiate if the need is for functional or structural repairs.
- Optimize the performance of the entire street network.
- Analyze and forecast budget impacts.
- Identify the most cost efficient methods of maintenance.
- Determine how to extend the service life of each street.
Feedback
- Annually evaluate and report on the state of the streets.
- Provide simple and clear reports outlining priorities and recommendations, street maintenance methods, and strategies.
- Integrate the PM into the developing Citywide Asset Management Program.
Benefits of a Pavement Management Operation
- Establishes a reliable and comprehensive database of street information.
- Provides a citywide perspective enabling staff to make objective maintenance decisions.
- Optimizes and forecasts the impacts of budgets and where to best put limited monies.
- Identifies the lowest life cycle cost of multiple maintenance methods.
- Prioritizes how to best preserve existing pavement and extend street life.
- Provides a measurable means of determining success.
- Provides management with the right information, at the right time, in order to make the right decisions.
- Identifies how management can save the City millions of dollars