Engineering and Public Works 2025 Annual Report

NEW INITIATIVES AND TECHNOLOGY

The City’s Pavement Management Plan is a proactive approach to preserve the City’s roadways, extend their useful life, and maintain a high-quality pavement condition system wide. A key component of this management plan includes accurately rating the current pavement condition and forecasting the anticipated decline. This is critical information to ensure the appropriate pavement preservation techniques are budgeted for in the City’s Capital Improvement Plan (CIP). Historically, the City has assigned pavement ratings on a semi-annual basis through visual inspection performed by seasonal staff. This judgment-based approach risks inconsistencies, reduces the reliability of the long-range capital planning. PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT PLAN

To improve the accuracy of the City’s pavement rating system, an automated pavement condition assessment technology was integrated into the City’s planning processes in 2025. This technology utilizes high-resolution, 360-degree cameras and GPS technology. With this approach, areas of pavement distress are documented to calculate a Pavement Condition Index (PCI). The pavement conditions are then used by staff for capital planning. The data collected was also used to update other geo referenced locations for the City’s GIS database, and City staff extracted boulevard tree data for use in inventorying and planning forestry management initiatives.

The City keeps an updated pavement rating map to track road conditions over time.

The City's pavement rating map includes details about individual roads and specific areas of deterioration.

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