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Town staff present life‑cycle pavement model; staff say current program is holding road conditions steady
Summary
Public works staff presented a life‑cycle pavement model built from 25 years of local data and several spending scenarios. Staff said the town’s preservation program has flattened pavement degradation and that the current annual paving budget appears sufficient, though the model will be rerun yearly and remains a tool to inform decisions.
Public works staff presented the town’s new life‑cycle pavement model at the Oct. 9 public works work session, describing the tool as a way to project street conditions under different spending scenarios. The presentation summarized 25 years of pavement-condition data, described modeling assumptions and produced scenario outputs by annual paving budget.
The model is intended “to be a decision‑making tool” based on staff’s description, and staff emphasized it complements — rather than replaces — field inspections. “There’s still a human factor,” the presenter said, noting staff will override the model when field observations differ from model…
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