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Florence rolls out pavement-condition mapping and approves cooperative pavement-preservation contract
Summary
Town staff demonstrated vehicle-mounted pavement scanning and a Pavement Condition Index (PCI) map; council approved a cooperative-use contract (City of Mesa contract 202-2159) with Holbrook Asphalt Company for pavement preservation not to exceed $1.5 million.
The Florence Town Council on Jan. 6 heard a demonstration of a new pavement-condition mapping program and approved a cooperative-use pavement-preservation contract to help prioritize and preserve town streets.
Public works staff demonstrated a Pavement Condition Index (PCI) program using vehicle-mounted scanning equipment and software (RMT) that maps pavement quality across the town. The presentation said five town vehicles are currently equipped with scanners and forward-facing cameras; data are processed and uploaded geospatially to a dashboard that breaks roads into segments and assigns PCI scores (green = very good; red = poor). The town-wide average PCI reported in the demonstration was 65.
Why it matters: The program provides analytical data to help the town prioritize maintenance, choose treatments (for example, high-density mineral bond vs. chip…
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