Revised February 1, 2024
The city roadway maintenance program ranges from total street reconstruction, to mill and overlay down, to pavement preservation, such as filling cracks and seal coating. To improve on the overall pavement management program, Shorewood’s Public Works Director, Matt Morreim, is implementing the use of Vaisala RoadAI. The Council approved the subscription to the service on June 26. The cost is approximately $8500-9500 annually.
The Director’s report read, in part:
“Vaisala RoadAI utilizes high-quality video and artificial intelligence (AI) to assess pavement surface and facilities quickly and accurately. It operates through a specially designed smart phone camera. Visual data can be collected at normal driving speeds. This data can be used to create reports to help strategic decisions regarding capital projects and routine maintenance on roads, signs and striping.
“Benefits to utilizing the Vaisala RoadAI system are:
- Specific road defect categorization with geolocation
- Identification of potholes including severity
- Full analysis of roads multiple times per year
- Road condition analysis on smaller segments [ten feet or less] across the road network
- Updated video of all streets each year
- Sign and striping inventory with geolocation
- All asset condition data is digitally stored
- Data can be exported to utilize in a future asset management system to track ratings over an extended period of time.
- Ability to analyze parking lots and trails.”
– Excerpted from Public Works Director Morreim’s report to Council (6.26.23 p.76-94)
Learn more about Vaisala RoadAI here.
12.11.23 update (start at p. 192) to Council
