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County hires Mott MacDonald for pavement-management system; $1M ARPA contract, vans finish data run mid-February
Summary
Citrus County contracted Mott MacDonald to implement a pavement-management program that includes survey vans, software licensing and staff training. The consultant said the contract is about $1 million (ARPA-funded), the county will own its software license, and a live software instance is expected in early fall.
Citrus County is implementing a new pavement-management program that will combine high-definition road surveys and decision software to prioritize resurfacing and extend pavement life, Mott MacDonald project manager Katia Delgado told the commission.
Delgado described the program as three parts: data collection, software configuration and implementation. Two sensor-equipped vans are driving every paved county road to collect high-resolution video, laser and condition data; Mott MacDonald expected the field collection to finish around mid-February, with processing and quality control to follow.
Delgado said software licensing (Trimble/AgileAssets or similar) will be purchased directly by the county and configured by the consultant. She told commissioners the contract that includes field survey, software setup and consulting services "is just under, just under $1,000,000" and that the county used American Rescue Plan Act funds to pay for the project.
"If you look at that curve, we the objective of pavement management is to try to keep the pavements at the top of that curve as long as possible," Delgado said, describing the rationale for earlier preservation treatments. "Spending a dollar at the top of that curve to prolong that life of that pavement saves us six to twelve dollars down if we wait toward the bottom."
Delgado said Mott MacDonald will remain under contract to provide two additional years of implementation support after the initial deployment so staff can calibrate the system and refine decision rules. She added the software will let staff run "what if" budget scenarios — for example how additional or reduced funding changes network condition over multi-year horizons — and produce reproducible, data-based work plans for annual resurfacing lists.
Commissioners asked who would own the vans and the software ongoing. Delgado said the county will own the software license and will contract for regular survey services with a vendor rather than keep vans in-house, following common practice for counties without state-level survey fleets.
County Administrator Steve Howard and several commissioners said the program is intended to move pavement decisions from reactive to proactive and to protect a county road asset they characterized as worth about $1 billion.
The county will receive interim condition snapshots as data are processed; the consultant expects a live, county-configured software instance and training by early fall.
