eRoadInfo Pavement Management
El Cajon Pavement Management
The City of El Cajon, California needed a Pavement Management System that will, among other things, be fully GIS integrated; provide a complete inventory and pavement rating of all City-owned roads and alleys; create and maintain Customer Work Orders and Service Requests; forecast future pavement conditions, and provide concise, easy to read reports on pavement conditions, inspections, rehabilitation and replacement priorities, and budget forecasting El Cajon, CA. strives to improve the pavement management through improving pavement repair decision making process. Recently, a new pavement management system has been selected by the city that integrates digital roadway imaging with pavement decision support functionalities. The system was able to reduce the time for pavement inspection and allows the office personnel to review pavement condition from their desks. The system supports pavement decision tree and flexible rule-based decision making so that preventative maintenance measures can be applied towards a more effective pavement management strategy. With the video images as a common base, many departments can use it to perform many tasks such as collecting many roadway features, such as sign, fire hydrant, guardrail, etc. Using the video solution, the daunting task of asset data collection is made possible within the budgetary and schedule constraints.
Frederick County Asset Inventory
Although the desire to establish a countywide asset inventory has been high, the associated effort and costs has prevented Frederick County to initiate the project. In 2006, the County successfully used an image-based asset tracking approach to develop the inventories of signs, guardrails, and pavement markings. The data collected has been integrated with a work order management system tracking the installation and maintenance history. The image-based asset tracking system operates within ArcGIS. County users click on the photos captured by the system to create ArcGIS point and line features into a GeoDatabase. Frederick County uses the ArcReader, ArcIMS configuration to distribute the images on Intranet to multiple departments. The integration of photos with ArcGIS is proved as an innovative and cost-effective approach for creating road asset inventories at Frederick County, Maryland.
Miami Dade Pavement Management
Among few of the largest counties in the nation, Miami-Dade County has been searching for a solution to their massive asset inventory needs. In this past year, the County’s public works department commenced on a project to perform a county-wide video inventory and collect various transportation related asset data using the video images. The project successfully used an image-based asset tracking approach to develop inventories of signs, sidewalks, and ADA access points. In additional to collecting the data, the condition inspection was also carried out using the images for the assets. The data collected has been integrated with a work order management system tracking the issues to be resolved and store the installation and maintenance history. The video images were also published with ArcIMS mapping service on the county Intranet to provide easy access to all enterprise users. The image-based asset inventory system operates within ArcGIS. County users click on the photos captured by the system to create ArcGIS point and line features into a GeoDatabase. The integration of photos with ArcGIS is proved as an innovative and cost-effective approach for creating road asset inventories at Miami-Dade County.