How GoodRoads Automates PASER Pavement Assessments
What You Get: An interactive map of PASER scores, a prioritized treatment list, and a multi-year budget forecast. A full city network in days, not months.
What Cities Are Doing About Utility Cuts
So utility cuts are inevitable, and the physics of trench repair makes them hard to do well. Does that mean cities are just stuck with degraded roads and bumpy commutes?
Not necessarily.
Why Do Utility Cuts Wreck the Road?
The FHWA's Manual for Controlling and Reducing the Frequency of Pavement Utility Cuts puts it plainly: utility cuts reduce pavement life, and the damage extends well beyond the patch itself.
Why Do Utilities Live Under Our Roads?
Utilities need maintenance. Underground utilities require excavation. And if the utility is buried under a road, that excavation goes through the road. Cities have some control over how disruptive this is — and some surprisingly clever policies to manage it.
Beyond the Potholes: Why We’re Making Our Road Data Public
We know pavement managers can’t spend thirty minutes on the phone with every resident. That’s why we’ve developed the Public Portal. It’s designed to give every resident the same data-driven "loop" that the gentleman in my story valued so much.
The Hidden Cost of Bad Roads: Why Waiting to Repair Is So Expensive
The Hidden Cost of Bad Roads: Because it costs so much to fix a failed road, a City can fall into the “Worst First” curse, where they forgo maintaining 2 fair roads or 20 good roads to reconstruct a single bad road.
