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Tooele County completes lidar pavement assessment; proposes shared procurement for neighboring towns
Summary
Tooele County roads staff reviewed a countywide mobile lidar pavement assessment May 15, reporting about 75% of maintained roads rate from marginal to excellent and roughly 25% rate poor or very poor. County staff proposed a joint COG solicitation so smaller towns can buy into the same survey at lower per‑mile cost.
Tooele County public works staff presented the results of a countywide mobile lidar pavement assessment to the Council of Governments on May 15 and proposed using the COG to extend the same survey to neighboring municipalities to reduce per‑mile costs and create consistent pavement condition data.
Jed Bell, Tooele County roads director, said the county contracted a mobile LIDAR and imaging survey to collect pavement distress data and build a GIS database used to compute pavement condition index (PCI) scores. “What we did is, we did a county wide survey of all of the county roads that we maintain,” Bell said. He described the vendor truck’s LIDAR and 3‑D imaging equipment and said the per‑mile cost in their procurement ran about $150–$250 per mile depending on economy of scale.
Bell summ…
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