Sedalia Announces Mobile Data Collection Project
The City of Sedalia’s Public Works Department will kick off a project to inventory the condition of all roads maintained by the City on Monday, Sept. 9 and will continue over the next few weeks.
The project was part of the department’s strategic plan to develop a long-term objective method for street maintenance and replacement. To accomplish this, the City Council approved a contract with Roadway Asset Services, LLC (RAS) based out of Austin, Texas.
RAS is a nationwide firm and provides professional asset management and mobile data collection services to local and state government agencies. RAS has assisted several large metropolitan cities across the country, most notably the City of Kansas City, who also partnered with the company to tackle their plan for road repairs.
RAS operates a fleet of state-of-the-art Roadway Asset Collection (RAC) vehicles that utilize sensors and instrumentation designed to support local governments in assessing the conditions of roadways and adjacent infrastructure assets.
The RAC vehicles are equipped with laser imaging and 360-degree camera systems that will collect imagery on all pavements and above-ground transportation related assets located within the right-of-way. The imagery will be utilized to develop a Pavement Condition Index (PCI) for each roadway to update the City’s pavement management program. This will help the City better plan for which roads will need attention, when, and to what extent.
Since funding is inherently limited, it is imperative to have this data to stretch the funding as far as it will go to keep the roads in the best conditions possible. All roadways maintained by the City will be surveyed by the RAC vehicle to ensure that high quality data is acquired across the roadway network. The RAC vehicle is a Ford work van and will travel at posted speeds during daylight hours without interruption to traffic flows.
If residents have any questions or need additional information regarding the vehicles, the project, or the process, they are encouraged to contact the City of Sedalia’s Department of Public Works at (660) 827-7820.