Nuts & Bolts of Pavement Management

Every year, in about January and February, the Assistant City Engineer tries to assess the entire street network for pavement quality with respect to the PASER rating. This rating is placed into the City's Access database along with updates of those streets that were rehabilitated in the previous year through contract work. This infomation is shipped out to a text file, then linked with our GIS system for mapping purposes. The City Engineer uses the 2 parts of the Deighton software called "DRoads" and "DTims" to put together long range (5-year) plans for the Finance Committee and the Board of Aldermen to consider for project selection. Basically, DRoads takes the raw data from the Assistant City Engineer's inspections and prepares it for the DTims program to report on the long range forecast of what monies are needed to either maintain or improve the Sunset Hills Street Network. Mind you, this is not where specific project selections take place. That is done by assessing the prior year's PASER inspection data to see what specific streets pavements are at the end of their service life and need rehabilitation of replacement. To see what this data actually looks like, take a look at a PDF file we have of it online and print it out if you would like to see how your street compares to the rest of the City's street network.