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Hampshire Puts Yotta DCL’s Innovative Highway Maintenance Software |
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Written by Vector1Media
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PR - Hampshire County Council is trialling
new software to improve its road maintenance programme. The Yotta DCL MARCHpms
pavement management system (PMS) will be used for processing geospatial road
surface condition data in an effort to bolster its management and maintenance
programme for its 8500km network of highways.
 The MARCHpms trial
will enable Hampshire County Council to assess the software’s capabilities in
presenting the information it needs to accurately identify the best treatments
for maintenance schemes, prioritise jobs and target budgets.
“For
us to put MARCHpms to the test is a logical step as we already work with Yotta
DCL for a complete range of surveys including CVIs, DVIs and SCANNER and use a
bureau service for the production of Best Value Performance Indicators
(BVPI). Yotta DCL is also conducting a video data collection exercise on
approx 150km of our road network,” says Paul Davison, Senior Officer of the
Highway & Transport Performance Team.
The MARCHpms trial is
scheduled to start in May 2008 with a complete set of highway data for the
previous two years preloaded into the system. This will enable Hampshire
County Council to get working with the data as soon as the system is installed.
The County Council will also use the MARCHmap module. This will extract
data from MARCHpms to show on its own GIS system. It can extract and display
defects, treatments and condition indices by chainage. This will provide
the maintenance teams with access to precise maps detailing hotspots with survey
data enabling them to pinpoint areas of immediate
concern.
Hampshire is a large and diverse county made up of rural
and urban areas. The area is also a popular tourist destination. Roads
have to accommodate high traffic volumes throughout the year as well as dealing
with general day to day traffic. Effective highway maintenance and management is
therefore considered a high priority and Yotta DCL is confident the MARCHpms
trial will be successful and provide a useful tool for the County Council’s
maintenance strategies.
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