PRINCE GEORGE — An unusual looking van is roaming city streets until the middle of this month.
Outfitted with lasers and cameras, the City of Prince George says it’s assessing local road conditions.
The equipment uses technology to document every road defect and rolls up the data to produce a condition score for each segment of road and intersection.
The Pavement Surface Profiler is using lasers and cameras to analyse all 1300 lane-kilometres of paved road in Prince George – Photo courtesy City of Prince George“Basically it (van) comes in and it analyses all our city roads, locals, arterials and connectors. And then it comes back with a number. It measures all the asphalt pavement distresses and then it summarizes it into a numeric order, worst to first, so then we can use that information to help us prioritize our road rehabilitation strategies in the future,” says Street Operations Supervisor Mick Jones.
The City says the Pavement Surface Profiler is being operated by Tetra Tech, which has performed similar assessments of nearly 1 million kilometres of roadways in North America.
