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City pilots equity‑aware pavement management plan; consultants use LIDAR to score roads
Summary
Public Works updated council on the pavement management strategic plan, reporting a current PCI of 86, plans to adopt Pavement Express/GIS integration, funding levels for reconstruction and overlay programs, and a new street‑selection method that folds equity and criticality into prioritization.
Sammamish Public Works presented a pavement management strategic plan update Tuesday that will guide prioritization of maintenance, rehabilitation and reconstruction over the next five years. The plan introduces a new street‑selection approach that combines pavement condition with a criticality matrix that includes road class, high‑use areas and multiple equity factors.
Public Works Director Audrey Sarci and consultant‑team lead Jenna (Jen) Renelli described technical steps of the project: road‑surface data collection by LIDAR, condition modeling and onboarding of a new GIS/asset system (Pavement Express) to integrate condition data with the city’s operational systems. “It drives down along the road, firing thousands of laser pulses every second,” Renelli said, describing the lidar…
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